I've definitely thought about building this myself, but haven't gotten around to it. It's just sending some text to a server, isn't it? What's so hard about it?
Obviously I'm missing something. I'd love to know what :)
I wasn't aware there were several startups every few months in logging. For us, it was an interesting space. Lots of changes happening.
Yes you are somewhat right. It is sending text to a server. But then you send more text and more text and you need to search for all this text in a split second. If you've ever run your own ELK stack for example, you'll realize quickly that you're spending most of your time scaling elastic search to handle the data volume. There is a challenge to doing that.
You've been through YC? How the hell did you graduate? Because you just did mistake number 4: http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
I used my own judgement and concluded that this is a worthless idea, as competition is high and differentiation low. I referenced that article to give credit to the original author.