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I built ErrorTexts because I needed a basic solution for being notified if one of my other apps had an outage. I built what I wanted to use for myself - a cheap API that I could sign up for in seconds with no setup or config, and which would let my code send texts to my phone in case of an outage.
I wanted something more than a health-check, since my website would still be up even if my auth service or database was down. And I definitely didn't want to spend time going through documentation and setup to configure a heavier (and more expensive) monitoring solution like Datadog, not for my simple little side projects. Webhooks would be a strong alternative, but I wanted a solution that didn't require an app.
I built ErrorTexts because I needed a basic solution for being notified if one of my other apps had an outage. I built what I wanted to use for myself - a cheap API that I could sign up for in seconds with no setup or config, and which would let my code send texts to my phone in case of an outage.
I wanted something more than a health-check, since my website would still be up even if my auth service or database was down. And I definitely didn't want to spend time going through documentation and setup to configure a heavier (and more expensive) monitoring solution like Datadog, not for my simple little side projects. Webhooks would be a strong alternative, but I wanted a solution that didn't require an app.
So I built this! Cheers.