Pingzo

Instant WhatsApp alerts for downtime

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Instant WhatsApp alerts for downtime

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Pingzo is a developer-first uptime monitor that retries failed checks before alerting, so you get fewer false alarms. Get instant alerts on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Webhooks and email plus push-based heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs via our Node.js SDK.

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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Sumit, solo founder of Pingzo. Like a lot of developers, I've had my share of 3 AM pages that turned out to be a temporary network blip, not a real outage. And I've had cron jobs and backup scripts silently fail for days with zero notification. Pingzo exists to fix both of those problems. What makes it different: Fewer false alarms. Failed checks are retried before you ever get paged, so a single network hiccup doesn't wake you up. Alerts where you actually are. WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and email, not just one channel. Heartbeat monitoring for background jobs. A native Node.js SDK (@pingzoapp/sdk) lets you monitor cron jobs, scripts, and backups with a push-based check-in, so silent failures get caught immediately. Public status pages. Share real-time uptime with your own customers under your own domain. I built this solo after getting burned by alert fatigue one too many times in my own infra. Still very early days, and I'll be here all day. Would genuinely love your feedback, feature requests, or just to hear what you use today for uptime monitoring and what's missing from it. Thanks for checking it out! 🙏 Sumit

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3mo ago

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🚀 Update: 3 Months In — From Launch Frustrations to Paying Customers (Thank You, Product Hunt! ❤️)

Hey Product Hunt family 👋

It’s been a little over 2 months since I first posted this question here, and I wanted to drop by with a quick update and a massive THANK YOU.

The feedback, and support from this community didn't just shape our roadmap Product Hunt brought us our very first paying customers! That early belief and brutal honesty meant the world to an indie team building in public.

Since our initial launch, we’ve taken all your suggestions and turned Pingzo into a full-stack, enterprise-grade reliability platform without the ridiculous enterprise price tag.

Here is what we’ve shipped based directly on your requests:

🛠️ What We Built (Powered by Feedbacks):

1. ⚡ Sub-15s WhatsApp & Multi-Channel Alerts
Paging engineers at 3 AM via email alone is dead. We built direct, sub-15-second WhatsApp alert delivery, alongside official 1-click Slack, Discord, Telegram Bot, MS Teams, and JSON webhook integrations.

2. 🛡️ Triple-Zone False-Positive Guard
No more false alarms for transient network blips. Pingzo now retries any failed check from 3 independent global edge regions before declaring downtime and waking you up.

3. 🔌 Dedicated TCP/UDP Port Probing
Direct socket checks for PostgreSQL (5432), Redis (6379), MySQL (3306), SSH, SMTP, and protocol-aware UDP checks (DNS & NTP) monitoring databases and microservices that don't serve HTTP web pages.

4. ⚡ Real User Monitoring (RUM) & Core Web Vitals
A lightweight, cookieless, GDPR-compliant <2KB telemetry script tracking real visitor experience metrics (LCP, TTFB, CLS, INP) live on your site.

5. ☁️ Encrypted Cloud Storage Auto-Sync
You own your telemetry data. Automated nightly exports stream your SLA and uptime audit logs encrypted with AES-256-GCM directly to your personal Google Drive, Dropbox, or AWS S3 / Cloudflare R2 bucket.

6. 🚨 24h Domain & IP Blacklist / RBL Scanner
Continuous daily checks across Spamhaus, SpamCop, Barracuda, and Google Safe Browsing to safeguard your transactional email deliverability and domain reputation.

7. ⏰ On-Call Shifts & Multi-Stage Escalation
Shift rotation schedules (on-duty vs. off-duty hours), tag-based alert routing, and automated tiered escalation so alerts reach the right person at the right time.

8. 🌐 Responsible Probing & Self-Service DNS Ownership Verification
Added a public transparency portal (/probe) for network sysadmins, with an instant self-service DNS TXT / HTTP file verification engine to resolve false blocks in under 60 seconds.

💬 What’s Next?

We’re committed to keeping Pingzo developer-friendly, blazingly fast, and accessible (starting with a generous free tier and fair $5/mo pricing for indie hackers and growing teams).

If you’re currently using Pingzo, or if there's any specific feature, integration, or annoying monitoring headache you’d like us to tackle next.. I’m all ears.

Drop a comment below, and I’d love to answer any questions or share learnings from building this! ☕👇

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3mo ago

What do you use for uptime monitoring?

Hey Product Hunt

I'm building Pingzo, launching here on July 16th. It started from a personal frustration: getting paged at 3 AM for what turned out to be a temporary network blip, not a real outage. And separately, having cron jobs and backup scripts fail silently for days because nothing was watching them.

So Pingzo retries failed checks before it ever alerts you, and sends alerts to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, or Discord instead of just email.

Before launch, I'd genuinely love to know: what do you currently use for uptime or cron monitoring, and what's the one thing that annoys you most about it? False alarms, missed alerts, clunky setup, pricing, something else?

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