Steve Souza

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Building tools I wish I had when I was shipping broken flow at 2am. Founder @ NotiLens.

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One silent failure cost us 6 hours of revenue. One alert pays for a year of NotiLens.

Six hours.

That's how long our payment webhook was silently failing before a user messaged us.

Nika

3d ago

What are the 5 tools you simply couldn't do your work without?

This could be related to your industry, or even a side project you're working on.

Here are my 5 (I couldn't function without them):

  1. Grammarly proofreading my texts, not just posts, but also client communication

  2. ChatGPT / Claude mostly brainstorming, help with copy, and summarising

  3. Figma I can put the basic graphics together quickly.

  4. Translator sounds incredibly old-school, but English is not my mother tongue

  5. Gmail and not only for communication, but also for storing ideas and sending myself email reminders for posts

Steve Souza

3d ago

When your backend misbehaves - you'll know first

Building NotiLens - smart monitoring and observability for solo founders and small teams.

most monitoring tools tell you when your server goes down. NotiLens tells you when:

  • signups stopped at 2am but the server was fine

  • payment initiated but never completed

  • cron job ran but processed zero records

  • ETL process ran but the flow broke mid-way, records never landed

  • AI agent looped for 3 hours burning credits

  • one client's pipeline went quiet while others ran fine

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