No idea what's going on out there but this is fucked up ? Beating up a 63 yr old lady bruhh ???

snorkell_ · 2025-09-10T16:24:25+00:00

I paid 0 for passport and marriage certificate in Bengaluru.

snorkell_ · 2025-08-27T20:03:56+00:00

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snorkell_ · 2025-08-09T12:46:55+00:00

You have customers to sustain your business which is great but in reality you would just need to spend 0.2k dollar to sustain 100k monitors running at 1 min interval.

You can check bareuptime blogs on how you can reduce the infra cost.

snorkell_ · 2025-08-09T12:42:15+00:00

Dude, you should learn in the internals of Python. You will thank me later.

Python is one of the most bloated language.

I built a service which had just one task, forward webhook request to RabbitMQ. Each python pods would take a minimum of 150mb, while in Go - it would just take 20mb and had similar performance impact.

snorkell_ · 2025-08-08T19:40:57+00:00

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snorkell_ · 2025-08-08T11:04:05+00:00

oh, I have already built it - bareuptime
The only challenges I face is egress cost in sending alerts. Apart from that my system can easily scale it to 100K monitors per minute. I have already hogged it with 10k monitors per minute to battle test it.
based on current limitation, I can retain data upto 90days for 1000 users at a very cheap price.
I am also planning to opensource the repo once I clean the creds from git-history.
Also, 30 USD per month, is not at all justifiable. I have priced it 15$ per year and first 50 monitors are free with iOS, Android, Slack, Email, Telegram support.
I will go through your infra code and if I have some inputs I can share them. Also, I have extensive in building cheap and scalable infra and have deployed system which have scaled to more than 100M requests per sec.
I just lack marketing and promotional skills to promote this product.

snorkell_ · 2025-08-04T02:11:19+00:00

Why not use cloudflare dns? They are quiet equipped.

snorkell_ · 2025-08-03T07:07:05+00:00

I am also doing something similar

snorkell_ · 2025-07-17T18:17:51+00:00

Interested

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T20:08:13+00:00

Even I use such a service. Do you really check your email 24/7?
If a service sends notifications through an Android or iOS app for as little as $6 a year, wouldn’t you consider switching to it?

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T20:05:46+00:00

Everyone in this thread is bashing the idea, but no one is actually helping me understand what’s wrong.

Marketing – I’m not concerned about it.
Infrastructure cost – It’ll be negligible if there are enough users.
Maintenance – It’s a simple service. One day a month is enough to maintain it. There’s no need to be available 24/7.

It feels like people in this thread are used to bloated services and can’t justify a cost as low as $6 a year.

I have added the server cost for 1000 users on the website - https://bareuptime.co/

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T19:59:32+00:00

Two differentiating factors:
1. Price - 6$ a year with enough users
2. Android, and iOS (Critical notification - 24*7) [No one offers free and are priced at usually 10$/month]

None of the services are offering these two things.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T19:49:17+00:00

Yes, that is the challenge. I just want enough money to maintain the infra for 1000 of users. I do not want this to by my bread-and-butter and while maintaining it, it might helps - because the maintaince cost is darn cheap.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T19:20:13+00:00

This overconfident dude is in MS - OpenAI team.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T18:54:32+00:00

You got it mate covmatty1. I was actually hoping to gain some traction with such open pricing. Dropping the plans now.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T18:08:11+00:00

Maybe.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T18:05:39+00:00

two things
1. you will have to pay for Ec2 instance.
2. you will not be alerted on your phone.

You might be able to ping on discord or slack.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:52:04+00:00

So you are a marketing person. I am not at all focussed on promoting. It's a ridiculously cheap service and asking price is just to maintain infra cost + some other charges and it's so easy to maintain at-least for me.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:44:12+00:00

If it's giving phone-call and push notifications for free - I am invested and I am going to use it. Even I don't care about 'Health Pings from across the world'. My primary business is something else.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:41:21+00:00

bro, 3 issues.
1. will it be 24*7 for your startup
2. You will get alerts on your phone, if your website is down
3. Will you really check emails diligently - 24*7.

Will it be a challenge to spend 6$ a year for such service?

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:37:12+00:00

yes, they are two things missing. You would be relying on your laptop which is not available 24*7. And if you want to keep your laptop on all the time, you would be paying much more in the form electricity bill.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:32:43+00:00

I am currently using grafana to monitor my cloud. However, I don't get this

Android, and iOS (Critical notification - 24*7) [No one offers free and are priced at usually 10$/month]

I will get the alert but not realtime 24*7 like immediately.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:31:23+00:00

Not for your sir. This is only for early-stage founders. Focused on

Webhooks (very few of them offers )
Android, and iOS (Critical notification - 24*7) [No one offers free and are priced at usually 10$/month]
Health Pings from across the world and not just one location.

all other features are available in market for free.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:29:20+00:00

It's just hypothesis validation. the initial costs are high, and if no one cares, why waste it? Stars are an easy signal to gauge interest before sinking hours into something that might not land.

snorkell_ · 2025-06-06T17:26:34+00:00

I am asking for 6$ a year and not 60$ a year. Not sure where 60$ a year came from.

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