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by hipadev23 970 days ago
> That’s for an app which sends a ping to a URL every x minutes…

My bigger question is: How the fuck do these companies keep getting created? There's gotta be more uptime-monitor SaaS companies than todo MVC demos in existence.
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ushakov 970 days ago
Because these people are bad businessmen. There is not a single reason yet another uptime monitoring business needs to exist. They have no chance at succeeding the likes of Datadog, New Relic.

Conclusion: promising builders being bad at startups

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rozenmd 970 days ago
Who says they have to reach Datadog/New Relic scale to "succeed"?
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ushakov 969 days ago
You’re right. I will take it back. Was just upset
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tmikaeld 970 days ago
It’s easy to get the free users, where of just a smaller % need to upgrade to keep you afloat. Then there’s the possibility to upsell other related services like analytics or logs.

Betterstack did this very well.

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ushakov 970 days ago
> a smaller % need to upgrade to keep you afloat

Until yet another free competitor comes along. Then you're out of business

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