I was tired of being charged premium for basic

Jul 30, 2025 12:46 PM

A bit of shameless promotion of my new indie product.

I built exit1.dev because I got tired of pretending basic was premium.
Uptime alerts shouldn’t be a business model. They should be default.

No pricing tiers. No “developer-first” marketing masks. Just a tool that tells you if your site’s up — or not.

Because you don’t need a dashboard that looks like a cockpit. You need signal.

It's a completely new product, I'm searching for people who can use it, and give honest feedback.

I'm not sure what features to develop next, feel free to come point me in the right direction. :)

Direct link app.exti1.dev

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⚠️ Make it simple. Make it work. Leave it alone.


Just my Very Limited Critique opinion.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Good point. Maybe it doesn't need more. Keep it simple.
But I also need to verify that it'll cover the basics most people need before I get to that conclusion.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dependencies. Uptime kuma is great but I don't want 100 alerts for all services behind a dependent router if the router is offline.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's an excellent idea! Maybe it could even be a visual dependency tree.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is this? wget-cron-as-a-service?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

wget-cron breaks when your box sleeps. We don’t.

This is real uptime monitoring — without the “enterprise” pricing.
We check your site from the outside, log outages, and let you know if something breaks.

No config files. No bloat. No nonsense.
Just uptime alerts that work.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So how are you differentiating this from, say, UptimeRobot?

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is completely free... UptimeRobot has played plans that are pricey. This is free, and will become an opensource project. :)

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But who's checking that exit1.dev is up? :p

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Haha good question. :D
I've made a worker in Cloudflare that checks all the functions, so we're covered.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0