I've shipped a lot of side projects. And every single one has taught me the same lesson the hard way: you never find out your site is down until a customer tells you.
Uptime email at 3:14am? Buried under 40 newsletters by the time I wake up. Slack ping? Muted, because I mute Slack so I can sleep. Meanwhile the checkout page has been throwing 500s for six hours and the first I hear of it is an angry DM.
So we built Defenso Alerts a website monitor that lives on your phone and refuses to be ignored.
Title: Building Defen.so: a security layer for modern applications
Content: While waiting for the Product Hunt launch, I wanted to share what we have been building with the developer community.
GitHub: https://github.com/1fancy/defen.so
Defen.so is a developer-first application security layer designed to help teams protect, monitor and maintain their applications without complex security infrastructure.
A Must To Have All-in-One Security and Monitoring Toolkit for developers & vibe coders. Defen.so Scan, Pentest and monitors your websites & apps for downtime, attacks, compilance, watch expiring SSL or domains, and pushes it to your phone. The Alerts app rings a call-style alarm until you answer. It also scans your code & Github repo for vulnerabilities, leaked secrets, and guards the code as you vibe-code in your AI editor. Per-site alerts: Slack, Telegram, email and more...
