Indie
Solo makers and indie hackers whose work is now something other people see
For the solo maker, indie hacker, or freelancer running things that people actually depend on. Free already gives you fifty monitors and an API key, so this is not about running out of room — it is about resolution and presentation. You want to know in a minute rather than five, and when a client or a user lands on your status page, you want it to carry your name rather than ours.
Any one of these sounds familiar? That’s the signal.
- Five-minute checks are too slow — a short blip can start and finish before your monitor ever looks.
- Someone other than you is reading your status page, and it still shows exit1 branding.
- Sixty days of history is starting to fall short of the question you are being asked.
- You caught an outage from a customer message instead of an alert.
When five minutes is long enough to miss it.
between checks
five times the resolution of Free
On Free, a check runs every five minutes — which means a two-minute outage can begin and end without your monitor ever noticing. Indie drops that to one minute, so a short blip surfaces as a real event instead of vanishing between polls. It also hands you the status page builder: your logo, your colours, your layout, with the exit1.dev badge gone. The page a client opens stops looking borrowed.
Each upgrade below is the answer to a pain above — never a spec for its own sake.
- The pain · Outages that vanish between checks
- 1-minute checks — five times the resolution of Free, enough to catch the short ones.
- The pain · A status page that looks borrowed
- The full status page builder on your page — your logo, colours and layout, with the exit1.dev badge removed.
- The pain · Fifty monitors starting to feel like a ceiling
- 100 monitors, and DNS record monitoring on top of the protocols Free already covers.
- The pain · History that runs out mid-question
- 90 days of retention, 3 API keys instead of 1, and 3 webhook integrations alongside email.
Minute-resolution checks and a status page with your name on it, for four dollars a month.