Life got in the way for a couple of months. Nothing dramatic — just other commitments pulling my attention. Observare sat untouched.
Coming back to it this week, the product is in better shape than I remembered. Everything I set out to build is built.
Four cloud monitor types: uptime, SSL certificate expiry, port, and cron heartbeat. A Linux agent you can deploy on any server to monitor processes, Docker containers, and internal services that aren't reachable from the outside. Five alert channels: email, SMS, Slack, Discord, and a generic webhook that connects to anything. Branded public status pages. A Stripe webhook logger with replay. All of it for £5 a month.
I built this because I was the customer. I was paying for three separate tools to do what Observare does in one place, and the pricing for anything decent was aimed at teams, not solo developers.
The building phase is essentially done. The hard part now is getting people to use it.
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