[karmakaze]

Old ideas: I've built a few but never put in (proper) sales/marketing effort.

1. aggregation of status pages. This was free. It had all the popular SaaS ones and was kept up-to-date with polling scripts written with a variety of heuristics or explicit scripting.

2. "20,000 foot view" distributed log events. It was a distributed 'key-event' log that integrated with logging so that you could put in a request-id or user-id and get the high-level 'human-rate' events in a time interval. Each high-level event had a link to the Loggly search. It could also present the events in a sequence-diagram view through the chain of connected services.

3. Hosted (private or public) exact github repo trigram/regex search using Hound-Search (aka etsy/houndd). The automated provisioning using cloud vms (not K8s) was pretty neat to set up.

4. Others. Tried making some info aggregators for products or movies to make it easy for me to find things I liked. Not complete enough to be better than existing web sites.