Have you ever accidentally missed an important meeting or ghosted someone due to an internet outage?

You're sitting right there, ready to work, and the power or internet goes down ten minutes before an important call.

First, a key stakeholder is staring at an empty video-call room, concluding that you flaked. Then, hours later, you weed through all the "Hello? Are you there?" emails, and have to send the "so sorry, my internet went out" message, which may be true, but still sounds exactly like "the dog ate my homework" and feels very lame after the fact.

I built proxigenta (proxigenta.com) to relieve both issues. It's a small menu bar agent for Mac, Windows, and Linux. When your machine stops checking in to the remote server, proxigenta notices and emails the people you chose (your manager, your main client, a teammate) with the message you wrote in advance: "proxigenta has identified an outage, and Alex is currently offline."

By the time you're back online, the outage was already communicated, someone was ready to hop on that call, and there's no face-saving to do.

It's in private beta, and free while it is. Right now, the Mac menu bar agent is Apple notarized, and we are currently waiting for the Windows Authenticode signing, which means the Windows agent has to be "Run as Administrator" until that goes through.

I'm looking for 20 more testers at the moment.

Here's the url and invite code for the first 20 people interested:
https://app.proxigenta.com/app
Invite Code: NOGHOSTING

In the meantime, I'd love to hear your stories!