I Built a Full-Stack Uptime Monitoring SaaS in 30 Days — Here's Everything I Learned
Adarsh Shukla developed WhistleBlower, a full-stack uptime monitoring tool, in 30 days. The tool offers various monitoring features and instant alerts to keep users informed about website status. Shukla shares insights on the challenges faced during development and lessons learned.
- ▪WhistleBlower provides HTTP, TCP, PING, and DNS monitoring, along with instant alerts via multiple platforms.
- ▪The tech stack includes Next.js, Node.js, Express, TypeScript, and MySQL.
- ▪A significant challenge was that ICMP ping was blocked in containerized environments, requiring a fallback strategy.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3943664) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Adarsh Shukla Posted on May 30 I Built a Full-Stack Uptime Monitoring SaaS in 30 Days — Here's Everything I Learned #webdev #ai #showdev #devops Six months ago I was manually refreshing my client's website after every deployment, praying it stayed up. That's when I decided to build WhistleBlower — a real-time uptime monitoring tool with alerts, status pages, and incident tracking. Here's what I built and what I learned.
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