Show HN: Automated Status Pages

hund.io

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How does this compare to StatusPage.io? At first glance Hund.io appears much cheaper but pretty close feature wise?

The biggest benefit over StatusPage.io is that our platform's design focuses on automation through integrations with third parties. StatusPage.io pages can only be automated through their direct integration with PagerDuty, or by parsing email notifications (from services like New Relic or Pingdom). We have the ability to add countless integrations with third parties for both monitoring and notifications.

Branding is important for companies, so we've chosen to offer complete white-labeling on our single plan. We leverage Let's Encrypt so that status pages can be instantly configured to use a secure custom domain.

These are just a few of the key differences, our features section outlines these and more.

FYI, my first question was also "how is this different than StatusPage.io?". It might be a good idea to have a comparison page or make the differentiation very clear in some other way. Your target audience has most likely heard of StatusPage.io (they are the incumbent in my mind) and will likely ask themselves the same question as soon as they land on your site.

If someone is using StatusPage.io, why should they switch to your service? Or, are you only targeting customers who do not already have a status page solution in place?

Best of luck!

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