Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by augustflanagan 2222 days ago
https://cronitor.io is built with Django.

It was a side project from March 2014 to March 2020, but as of last month it’s now my full-time job!

5 comments

Looks great, I think I've read about this before!

Just FYI, the CSS for your homepage appears to be intermittently 404'ing. Could be a failed release and your static manifest being out of date on one or more of your running backend processes – we've had this before with Django.

Ugh, thanks! Fixing now.
Looks there are CSS issues right now, just FYI. The bundle.<hash>.css is 404ing.
The joys of bringing up new machines while simultaneously posting on HN. ;)

Thanks for calling that out!

Congrats! If you don't mind sharing what made you make the jump to full time?
I've been working on e-commerce and consumer mobile products for the last 6 years. It's been a great experience, but I've always wanted to work full-time on a SaaS developer tool. More specifically, one that I want/need in my day-to-day job as a software developer.

Watching Cronitor grow the past few years, and seeing all the ways that people rely on it today, has been extremely rewarding. Working on it full-time means I can finally tackle some of the bigger projects that I've wanted to do, but haven't been able to due to time constraints. In other words, I get to make it even more useful now!

Congrats!
Congrats!