What started as a week long project to experiment with uptime checking with Next.js and AWS Lambda turned into a multi-year project (approaching 4 years now).
It now covers a much wider use case (status pages, uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and cron jobs).
I'm thinking of hiring folks to grow it more, but the workload is still under two hours a day, before work.
I wrote about the journey to get here, if you're curious:
Just read all of the posts, great story and very useful to understand the time involved to become actually profitable for indie hackers, it's not an overnight or even one year success like many people might erroneously believe. Somewhat related, would you be able to share rough financials for your products? I had looked into making and selling an uptime monitoring app as well, initially made for my own sites, but I found that even making 10k USD MRR seems very difficult compared to other types of products, probably due to the vast amount of competition in the space.
The first is CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) which is my attempt to bring the best code review experience to teams on GitHub. It’s heavily inspired by the excellent tooling I saw within Google (Critique, for Googlers out there). Been running this solo for 4+ years and I have a very modest base of paying customers.
The second is GitGuard (https://gitguard.dev) which is a flexible rules engine for GitHub PRs. Basically a supercharged version of GitHub’s branch protections and code owners tools that uses a super simple “language” (basically a Boolean logic builder) to let you define your team’s approval policies in a very flexible way. Ex: “if the PR contains over 10 files or 200 lines and doesn’t contain any test files, require approval from someone in the tech-lead group”
It's not a saas but a tool to create, manage and share wireguard configs.
You define networks, add devices, label them, and create access rules based on those labels so that working with addressess and allowed ips is more user friendly.
Then you can create invites so that sharing the configs with the right people or machines also becomes much easier.
I’m building Streamrun, a platform for live streamers to do things that are not possible directly on their devices, like switching RTMP input mid-stream, adding HTML overlays to GoPro streams, or ensuring uninterrupted stream out in poor network conditions.
Take a look and you'll see. You create forms in-app, using a variety of pre-configured i put types; basics like text and options are obviously supported, but also more interesting types like photos with markup, and signatures. After you're done filling in data on your form, the app generates a nice printable version. For the server side I envision filling out editable PDFs with the data from the form, meaning you can create government compatible reports as well.
It is a website that helps you learn Chinese vocabulary in context. You can upload articles, novels, etc. and it will generate flashcards with full audio based on your current level of knowledge.
What started as a week long project to experiment with uptime checking with Next.js and AWS Lambda turned into a multi-year project (approaching 4 years now).
It now covers a much wider use case (status pages, uptime monitoring for websites, APIs and cron jobs).
I'm thinking of hiring folks to grow it more, but the workload is still under two hours a day, before work.
I wrote about the journey to get here, if you're curious:
2018: https://maxrozen.com/2018/12/31/2018-review-starting-an-inte...
2019: https://maxrozen.com/2019/12/29/2019-further-reflections-try...
2020: https://maxrozen.com/indiehacking-3-year-review
2021: https://maxrozen.com/2021-strangers-paid-my-macbook
2022: https://maxrozen.com/2022-just-keep-shipping
2023: https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off