UpDown
Simple website uptime monitoring
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HN · launched Dec 29, 2025 · 7 upvotes (top 64%) · 1 view
Niche: website uptime monitoring tools · 116 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +63% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Observability & eval
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 116 launches in website uptime monitoring tools →
Could you build this?
Yes A simple website uptime checker can be implemented quickly with a basic frontend that triggers an HTTP HEAD/GET request or queries a serverless function to check status codes.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 197 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 198 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 40 days after the earliest competitor.
- Is it Down? · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Damn Is It Down · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- You Up? · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- UptimeTwin · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Spot Downtime · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Earlyward · ph · 2026-11-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Did Anything Break? · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Uptime Tracker · ph · 2026-10-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
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