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Checkly founder / CTO here. Got a ping we got mentioned. Good luck to the OP!

Checkly started bootstrapped (not open source) and it’s indeed a tough market. Very exciting also, but not super easy to get a foothold.

Anyway! Good luck again and will be following your efforts.

You should charge $500 a pop for this. People will pay

Cat list price differs based on breed and vicinity to shelters and farms. OPEX and write off is manageable given an average 15 year life span.

YMMV and not financial advice

Sounds in concept exactly what we are doing, but then "as a service". We let you manage it from your code base (or UI if you want) and take care of the metrics ingestion, dashboarding and alerting.

With risk of tooting my own horn too much, this is exactly why I started my company https://checklyhq.com

We approach it a bit different: we blur the lines between E2E testing and production monitoring. You run an E2E test and promote it to a monitor that runs around the clock.

It's quite powerful. Just an E2E test that logs into your production environment after deploy and then every 10 minutes will catch a ton of catastrophic bugs.

You can also trigger them in CI or right after production deployment.

Big fat disclaimer: I'm a founder and CTO.

Everyone in NL has like 2.3 bikes on average. They are many times treated as essentially throw away items. Not for the up upmarket segment, but for the casual bikes.

You make up for that in volume!

Anecdata: tried out Druid and Clickhouse for my SaaS. Couldn’t get Druid working. CH ran in 2 minutes.

Yeah, fair point. Sentry has added quite some features and increased complexity. Probably for good reasons like serving large customers. But still

Slight hijack. I / we went through a very similar tech selection process for timeseries metrics (not logging) ~1.5 years ago. We looked at Druid, ElasticSearch, TimeScale and a bunch of others.

Main takeaways were: the SQL flavor and its aggregations in CH are amazing. Running on a single node for dev laptops is trivial. It’s crazy fast with almost zero tuning.

It does not surprise me at all the CH is powering new products and startups.

Note: hosted CH did not exist yet. We are using Altinity to run our cluster.

Isn’t sentry also open source and also using clickhouse at least in some parts?

Sounds like Mitchel got distracted. I get it, internal company wiki entropy is a hard problem.

yeah it's crazy. They invented the compact cassette player, the VCR AND the CD.

When I was a bit younger I worked on quite some high profile (for my country) web apps. Think e-commerce, travel. Couple million users. We used Oracle on big fat metal server stacks for this.

I honestly thought this was needed because RAC and some other stuff. Uptime!

Now, a little older and wiser, I know all of these projects would have been fine on Postgres on some hosted provider.

This one has been great for my nephew and niece. They are hooked on it. Can recommend https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0241317738/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...

The Great CEO within is a great book. Honestly, also for non-CEOs. One of the better (and short) Startup/B2B/SaaS self-help books.

But one grain of salt: If you are at a smaller startup like me (~35 people) implementing all the lessons and tips would required doubling head count just for all the reporting, training, engineering, sales and marketing support staff you would need.

So pick and choose what you need I guess.

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Hey! Yes, very crowded! But also ripe for change as me and you are doing. Very excited to see how people will use Step CI, Checkly and whoever else wants to join this mission.

Just wanted to hop in here as founder of Checkly that I think this is awesome. Coded API checks, or checks living in your codebase make total sense. I'm also kinda humbled as I launched Checkly as an indie hacker couple years back and later went VC route. Being mentioned by name by an alternative is kinda really cool! Good luck StepCI team and let's make the web (and the APIs) more reliable!

Not directly related but anecdata. We migrated for chart.js to plotly.js to finally bite the bullet and plonk down the $$$ for highcharts.

Highcharts is no panacea, but at we just hit performance and capability issues really quickly with all the free stuff out there.

This post is all true. One caveat (which is mentioned in the post): this person has multiple VC’s in his network and knows multiple founders who have raised on nothing but a deck.

Many, many, many future founders are not as lucky.

So, I guess rule -1 is: get to know VC’s, Angels and other previously funded founders.

I hope their API and SDK got better. It was a pain to implement and use some years ago. Stripe was light years ahead and we ended up switching. Also the capital demands from Adyen were much higher than Stripe.

Checkout ShortCut. Been using it for years now. https://shortcut.com/

This is now Tailwind. Purple everywhere!

Looks cool, but this is exactly what Intercom and a large range of competitors do. Might want to check them out.

Yep. Same on Outlook (née Hotmail). Announcements from Microsoft in spam.

I certainly have those day / weeks as is normal in any startup or work environment. But they tend to not be super frequent.

This is fair. I do use the same system for family and personal stuff. Separate inbox and separate Apple Reminders list.

I’m always fascinated by people obsessed by productivity and its range of tools.

I consider myself pretty highly productive. Typical week had 8+ meetings, calls, follow ups, research, thinking time and sometimes coding. Typical CTO and CPO stuff. I tend to get 90% of important things done. If not more.

I’m fairly busy, but just use my inbox with search, Apple notes and Apple reminders. Works fine for me.

Am I just missing out on something?