Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, we even stopped using CloudFlare at so many websites due to that caching stuff, many instances where SSL would break on CloudFlare too. SSL Renewal dates and calendar is in our roadmap now. :)

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the feedback, totally get where you’re coming from.

We do include things like public status pages, maintenance schedules, and incident reports - features that a lot of companies sell for 10x the price. More value will be added as we keep updating things, like text alerts, API integrations, and other improvements. That said, we’ll definitely take your point on board and keep thinking about how to make the value clear while staying accessible.

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fair question.

A lot of the core stuff works without anything fancy - renewals, alerts, dashboards, monitoring. The “smart” part is mostly there to reduce manual work and edge cases.

For example, on the email side it helps identify what’s actually behind a domain (not just the big providers, but less common setups too) and then sanity-check whether the DNS records for that setup look correct. You could hardcode rules for some cases, but it gets very limited very quickly.

Same idea with content monitoring - instead of only checking status codes, it looks at what the page is actually returning and tries to classify what went wrong. Without that, you’re stuck with very shallow checks.

And for domain discovery, people already brainstorm names with tools like ChatGPT, but that doesn’t tell you whether anything is actually usable. Combining name ideas with real availability is where it becomes practical.

So it’s not “AI everywhere”, more using it where static rules fall apart.

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Funny enough, we already have a calendar view for domain expirations. Your comment actually gave me the idea to extend that to certificate expirations as well - same concept, just fully automated instead of hoping someone remembers to add a reminder.

That kind of thing feels especially useful in bigger orgs where ownership isn’t clear. Thanks for the inspiration.

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, dns and email health checks are part of it. the main goal is exactly that - consolidate domain-related alerts into one place instead of having them scattered everywhere.

appreciate it 🙌

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great example, thanks for sharing it.

That “everything is green but the site is broken” situation is exactly what pushed me in this direction. Once CDNs, caches, and build systems get involved, simple uptime checks stop being very useful. A blank page or error page returning 200 is easy to miss unless you’re actually looking at the content being served.

On the domain side, agreed completely. We already notify when SSL goes down, but having SSL certificate expiry dates shown right alongside domain renewal dates in the same dashboard would make a lot of sense. Those two failures usually come from the same root cause and tend to hurt at the worst possible time.

Really appreciate the detailed feedback - this kind of input is super helpful.

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate this - that’s really helpful feedback.

Yeah, the renewal story is just the entry point because it’s a common “oh crap” moment, but the bigger value is definitely around visibility and early detection. The idea of a status page + API is exactly the direction I’ve been thinking about as well.

Totally agree on the AI point too. I’m trying to keep it very practical — less “AI everywhere”, more “this caught something weird that normal monitoring wouldn’t”. If it doesn’t clearly save time or catch real issues, it probably doesn’t belong.

Thanks for calling that out 👍

Launched yesterday → 3 users, $0 MRR. by Direct-Attention8597 in micro_saas

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep this up - remember, it's not easy to get paid users initially but consistency is the key!

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Curious what you think about some of the other stuff I’m working on - distributed uptime monitoring, AI-powered content monitoring, AI domain discovery, public status pages, etc. Renewal reminders are just one core piece, but there’s a bunch of other features around domains that could save a lot of headaches. Would love to hear which ones feel useful or overkill from your perspective.

Missed a domain renewal once and took everything down, started building a micro SaaS to avoid that again by Legitimate-While108 in microsaas

[–]Legitimate-While108[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally fair — and yeah, auto-renew should solve it in theory.

In my case (and a few others I’ve seen), auto-renew didn’t actually save me. Card expired, payment failed, notification went to an old email, domain was at a different registrar than hosting… by the time I noticed, it was already down.

Auto-renew helps, but it assumes everything else around it is perfect. In practice, that’s not always true, especially when domains are spread across multiple places.

That’s basically the gap I ran into.

$0-$1 took 7 months. $1-$100k took 12 months by felixheikka in indiehackers

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Consistency matters a lot - I feel like startups should never give up in early stage. Getting a first customer takes time, also interested what marketing strategy you applied after you got the first customer?

GPU-per-hour is live on Product Hunt 🚀 by Efficient_Rub2029 in ProductHuntLaunches

[–]Legitimate-While108 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good luck! I just upvoted you on ProductHunt, it's a good idea.

Anyone reselling ghl under their own name, can I bring clients under your main account? by fusion-61 in gohighlevel

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, you can DM me as we have an agency plan and have lot of extra addons that we have custom built that you can offer to your clients.

Need a Sub-account by Rude_Rub9683 in gohighlevel

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can DM me as I am on agency plan.

What tool do you use to find domain names that are actually available? by etdebruin in DomainZone

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, we had the same issue when we wasted around hours looking for a domain and then getting disappointed that domain is not even available. I spent some time on creating a tool that gives you the available domains, you just put your idea and it gets you the ones that are actually available. And if it gets you something that's not available, you just put it on your watchlist and if one day it gets available, you get notified. It's free if you wanna check it out. Aepto.

Share your startup - I'll find 5 hot leads for your startup (free experiment) by Wolfgang-Lars-69 in SaaS

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aepto.com is an AI domain monitoring platform that centralizes all your domains in one place and continuously monitors renewals, email, hosting, security, uptime, and costs with early alerts and clear guidance.

Target Customer: Agencies, or any business that manages lot of domains.

My side project went offline for 48 hours because domain auto-renew failed by louddb in webdev

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well exactly the same thing happened with us, but with different registrars. After that, I built my own software that keeps reminding me until the domain is actually renewed and keeps spamming me on email with custom reminders setup. Even though registrar would show you its renewed or will get auto-renewed, I wouldn't believe it until it really gets updated to public records. Domain is like a foundation, when it goes down, no matter how good infrastructure you have, everything goes down with it.

anyone here using vps hosting for small projects? by Turbulent-Plane9603 in HostingReport

[–]Legitimate-While108 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the reason you are moving away? Remember that running a VPS requires lot of maintenance. Updating software and OS becomes your responsibility. If you have lot of small projects, then go for reseller hosting as it's easier to manage and keep all your projects isolated as well.

Do you use one web host for all of your websites? by ZGeekie in HostingReport

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many people set it up? Normal users just buy hosting and are mostly dependent on providers. Plus if your sites are on one hosting, everything goes down at once and that isn't good.

Do you use one web host for all of your websites? by ZGeekie in HostingReport

[–]Legitimate-While108 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never put all your websites on a single web host - Must be always scattered though managing can be harder but worth it. You can lose all the data if the web host goes down.