5 status page tools I tried before building the 6th
Statuspage.io, Better Stack, Instatus, Upptime, Cachet. What each one is best at, what each one costs in real hours, and the framework that made me build StatusPageBuddy anyway.
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Funnel data, real user quotes, and what didn't work behind StatusPageBuddy.
The badge generator that found a 4-week-old bug in production
I shipped a status badge generator on Thursday. The first thing it did was reveal that every status badge I'd ever shipped had been broken since launch.
36 hours on ChatGPT, 4 days on Google. Same week, very different velocity.
ChatGPT had me at #4 in 36 hours. Google has me averaging position 30 with 0 clicks. Both are signals. Here's how to read them.
The article tested its own thesis. It won.
32 readers on dev.to, 1 upvote on IH, and 2 visitors from a one-line GitHub PR I'd merged 18 days earlier. The thesis my article argued — outreach doesn't drive signups, asset accumulation does — won when its own distribution data validated it.
I asked ChatGPT for free status page tools. It didn't mention mine. Here's the Next.js + Supabase build behind that zero.
Three weeks of a free status page on Next.js + Supabase. 17 cold touches, 3 signups, 2 search clicks, 0 AI mentions. Real users, real numbers.
Hello, world
First post on the SPB blog. Real ones start Friday.