OpenStatus
Infrastructure
monitoring
SHOW HN2023
171points
68comments
#353of 3,109 in 2023
Top 12%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 13 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.27.
Idea: 1 for, 5 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good visual design and simple landing page
From 2 comments
The site looks visually very good. Lots of typos in your English translations though.
tiberriver256 on HNCongrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around. I'd be…
bluehatbrit on HN
Open source is a good option for a crowded market
From 1 comment
Congrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around. I'd be…
bluehatbrit on HN
Objections
Pricing is high compared with alternatives
From 2 comments
Looks good, however i find the pricing a bit on the high side, especially compared to others like uptime robot and hettrix tools.
jacooper on HNMaybe it's just me, but seeing pricing on the first page of an open source project makes me puke a little in my mouth. I know that technically the code is open source and people…
ilrwbwrkhv on HN
Relies on several SaaS providers
From 2 comments
Do you really need 4 SaaS provides to run this? From your docs: tinybird, turso, clerk, Resend
typosaur on HNWhy is it normal in the Typescript community to rely on a lot of other SaaS providers to build a simple application? This project relies on 4 different paid services. Why? Why do…
impulser_ on HN
Open source alone is not a strong differentiator
From 2 comments
Is being open-source the only differentiator you have? Only software devs care about this. Businesses keep paying your competitor millions of $ annually, without them being…
typosaur on HNCongrats on your launch! It seems well designed and well thought though from a UX perspective. The landing page is also very simple and easy to wrap my head around. I'd be…
bluehatbrit on HN
Single monitoring region per monitor
From 1 comment
First, congrats on the launch! Why did you end up going with a SaaS model? 30 Euros or $31.50 USD is pretty expensive for something like a status site. You'd have a lot less to…
oooyay on HN
Requests
Multi-region checks per monitor
From 1 comment
Thanks again ! Tbh we haven't thought of the sla violation For region availability we are planing to add multi region check per Monitor At the moment you can only set one region…
tibozaurus on HN
Clearer messaging and differentiation
From 2 comments
I'd recommend working on editing any public-facing copy and unifying your message. I'm assuming I know what this tool does, but these examples do not validate that assumption. Is…
octagons on HNIt's worth coming up with a stronger public-facing answer We went through this last year, I think we have a public one, a private one, + our actual more 'serious' telemetry…
lmeyerov on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Uptime Kuma?
From 2 comments
In what ways is it better than Uptime Kuma which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1]…
CAP_NET_ADMIN on HNI run Uptime Kuma[1] in my home to monitor all my homelab and Kubernetes services. It's really awesome. How does OpenStatus compare to it? [1]…
nodesocket on HN
Why use it instead of existing paid and open-source alternatives?
From 1 comment
Why should I use this instead of 100s others paid and open-source alternatives?
ushakov on HN
Why use a SaaS model instead of selling the software?
From 1 comment
First, congrats on the launch! Why did you end up going with a SaaS model? 30 Euros or $31.50 USD is pretty expensive for something like a status site. You'd have a lot less to…
oooyay on HN
Alternatives named
Uptime Kuma
From 1 comment
In what ways is it better than Uptime Kuma which doesn't require a bunch of SaaS spaghetti to run and has much broader community support. [1]…
CAP_NET_ADMIN on HN
Checkly
From 1 comment
Yep but we are on the same pricing range as BetterStack or Checkly based on the number of request we make per month month
tibozaurus on HN
BetterStack
From 1 comment
Yep but we are on the same pricing range as BetterStack or Checkly based on the number of request we make per month month
tibozaurus on HN
UptimeRobot
From 1 comment
10 minute intervals and only 5 monitors is very limited for the hobby plan. Why shouldn't I use UptimeRobot (or any other alternative) instead which has 5 minute intervals and…
snowstormsun on HN
Datadog
From 1 comment
That’s a naive assumption. I can go with any of your competitors (Datadog, Checkly, BetterStack) and not care about the infra
ushakov on HN