I Built an Uptime Monitoring SaaS in a Weekend — Here's What I Learned
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The Setup I was paying $15/month for Uptime Robot. I used maybe 30% of it. Most days I just needed to know: is my site up? Friday night I thought: I could build this myself. Saturday night I realized: I could build this in a weekend. By Monday morning it was live. Now I have 50 users and 3 paying customers. Here's what actually happened. Friday: The Problem Gets Real You know when you pay for something you don't fully use, and you can't quite justify canceling it?