Hi, I am Peter Steenbergen and I am working on UptimeMate. A monitoring solution for finding problems on your website. We all known there will be some problems with it eventually.
I have worked more than 37 years in the IT field. And with every company I have ever worked there was no other person than me which was responsibly for the hosting and uptime for all the websites of the company.
This monitoring was in the beginning mainly the customers calling that the email service is down, or the website unresponsive. If you have several hundred domains to monitor many services where very pricey. And next to that you needed more than one time to monitor specific kind of services.
So with scratching my own itch I kept thinking of building a monitoring solution myself. Last year I spoke to Frank and he was looking for a Software-as-a-solution to build and was happy to join the party. Frank is a very good designer so he is building the design and frontend stuff. I on the other hand am working on the backend side and cluster management with the helping build the frontend with some technical challenges.
It all started last year with drawing out some plans and soon we thought that just monitoring the uptime would not be enough to make a successful product to launch. For this first version we are launching now with speed insights, resource summaries, assets sizes, mixed content, 404's, SSL monitoring next to Uptime monitoring and more..
Getting so far that we can launch the first version. Some major upgrades, and the occasionally changing API's from vendors which did not communicate with the changes.
Actually launching the beta. After all the time and sweat we put into it, we just sended a batch of 50 invitations to beta user for the first release. We got nearly 600 subscribers with potential to be coming a customer. So that is a big achievement for us.
We are still trying that out. But building an audience on Twitter and LinkedIn is high recommended. Occasionally share something you are working on.
We used BetaList and alos BetaPage and both got us many subscribers for the beta.
Software as a service based on the number of sites or team functionalities.
Our goals is to be the number one go to for monitoring services. Good pricing for many options. We use and pay with the product ourselves for our own customers.
This is something we are still working on, but it will be some affiliate and reselling, next to paid advertising.
Yeah, working together and accept each other as we are. We are both different kind of persons and with the ultimate end goal, a very good product, in mind we get further than some of the greater teams in the wild.
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