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Their stack speaks for itself: Next.js, TailwindCSS, shadcn/ui, tinybird, turso, drizzle, clerk, Resend That’s for an app which sends a ping to a URL every x

• hipadev23 3y ago
  > That’s for an app which sends a ping to a URL every x minutes… My bigger question is: How the fuck do these companies keep getting created? There's gotta be more uptime-monitor SaaS companies than todo MVC demos in existence.
  • tmikaeld 3y ago
    It’s easy to get the free users, where of just a smaller % need to upgrade to keep you afloat. Then there’s the possibility to upsell other related services like analytics or logs. Betterstack did this very well.
    • ushakov 3y ago
      > a smaller % need to upgrade to keep you afloat Until yet another free competitor comes along. Then you're out of business
  • ushakov 3y ago
    Because these people are bad businessmen. There is not a single reason yet another uptime monitoring business needs to exist. They have no chance at succeeding the likes of Datadog, New Relic. Conclusion: promising builders being bad at startups
    • rozenmd 3y ago
      Who says they have to reach Datadog/New Relic scale to "succeed"?
      • ushakov 3y ago
        You’re right. I will take it back. Was just upset