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Any ideas on how you are going to promote it? Are you good with marketing? At the very least you need to add a demo dashboard to highlight the available features, before I have to spend time making an account.

Judging from similar projects I've pursued, writing code seems to be the easiest task these days.

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Thanks for the comment.

Yea, I've done my share of marketing. I don't know if I would claim I'm good at it or not. Right now, everything is a bit rough, so it needs some work. I just wanted to get something out and start getting peoples thoughts. If I decide to move forward with it, I'll clean everything up, and create a better landing page for it, explaining features, etc.

This isn't anything new. There are other monitoring apps out there, but some of them are a bit expensive. I'm thinking about charging half of what the others charge.

If you do decide to move forward with it, check out https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses for inspiration, there are a few people doing similar stuff. Some direct links:

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/updown-io [ 1.5k/mo ]

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/amon [ 1.5k/mo ]

https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/apex-ping [ 1.0k/mo ]

Thanks for the links.

As a marketer, thanks for saying that. Many on the technical end are dismissive of the value of marketing with 2 predominant views; 1) If its a good product the customers will come or 2) I can do that myself.

To be fair this seems to be a reducing pool last few years for some reason. And there are some god awful marketers out there.

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