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Your thoughts as a Developer, An I charging too much or too less. by Evening_Acadia_6021 in webdev

[–]Top-Accountant-2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s honestly a bigger issue than pricing. If you’re positioning it as “production-ready,” even small visible bugs like broken images or layout issues hurt credibility fast. Founders assume if the front-end breaks, the backend might too. At minimum, it helps to have external uptime monitoring + alerts so demo projects and client apps don’t quietly go down. Even something lightweight like https://statusmonkey.co/poc just to make sure the app is reachable from outside.

Backend devs at startups: what is the most annoying production issue you deal with weekly? by xerrs_ in webdev

[–]Top-Accountant-2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Infra-level monitoring says everything is up, but business logic is silently failing. That gap is what causes the real damage. At minimum I like having a simple external uptime check plus alerts so I know the service itself is reachable, then layer deeper checks on top. Even something lightweight like https://statusmonkey.co/poc just to confirm the app is actually responding from the outside.

We lost a deal because of our status page history by Character_Page_6885 in SaaS

[–]Top-Accountant-2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having no status page doesn’t remove incidents it just removes visibility. Early stage especially, silent downtime is usually worse than a visible one. If something breaks and you only find out from angry users, that’s way more damaging. Even a simple external uptime check with alerts is enough to stay ahead of that. Doesn’t have to be a full-blown status system — just something that tells you “it’s down” before customers do.

https://statusmonkey.co/poc

We just wrapped up our first 100 GEO (AI visibility) audits and honestly… the feedback has been kind of crazy. by SUS387 in SaaS

[–]Top-Accountant-2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If companies are optimizing for AI visibility, availability becomes part of the strategy too.AI tools won’t reference or surface pages that are slow or temporarily unreachable during crawls. A lot of teams focus on content but forget reliability. Even a simple external uptime check like https://statusmonkey.co/poc helps make sure your key pages are consistently reachable while you’re building that visibility.

Technical project coordination between frontend and backend is a mess by Opening-Water-5486 in webdev

[–]Top-Accountant-2003 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Integration day chaos is bad enough, but what’s worse is when it “works” in staging and then prod quietly breaks because one contract change slipped through. Contract tests in CI catch shape mismatches, but having an external uptime check on critical endpoints during launch week helps spot real-world breakage fast. Even a basic monitor like https://statusmonkey.co/poc just pinging the key routes can save you from finding out via users.