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This is a tough market to compete in. Unfortunately the pricing here isn't competitive with existing feature-full and mature services. For instance, updown.io will monitor 50 websites every 5 minutes for under the monthly price, and that includes uptime and certificate monitoring with email, slack, and SMS notifications.

To succeed it seems the product either needs to revise its pricing or add more features to justify the cost.

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Totally fair!

In a market that is very saturated with feature-rich services, I want to do something narrow, and address a specific need. It makes it easier for me to rely on certificate transparency, as I'm adding new hosts automatically, without risking noisy notifications. I wouldn't want an uptime service to glob whatever hosts it finds in my domain just to tell me they go down, or don't respond to HTTP. But an SSL cert is either served, and has an upcoming expiration date, or isn't served - in which case I'll never alert about it :)

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