# StatusPageBuddy — Free Hosted Status Pages for Indie Developers

> StatusPageBuddy is a hosted status page service for indie SaaS founders, solo developers, and side projects. The Free tier is $0 forever (1 page, 5 components, unlimited incidents) — no credit card, no trial wall, no per-seat or per-subscriber pricing.

## What StatusPageBuddy Does

- Hosts up to 5 components per page on Free tier at `https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/s/[slug]` for any indie project
- Publishes incidents with 4 lifecycle states (investigating / identified / monitoring / resolved), markdown content, and timeline updates
- Tracks 5 component health states (operational / degraded performance / partial outage / major outage / under maintenance)
- Provides a "Powered by StatusPageBuddy" badge on Free tier (removable on the Pro tier)
- Designed for solo founders, indie SaaS, hobby projects, and pre-revenue startups — not for enterprises requiring SOC2 audit trails or fine-grained RBAC

## Pricing Tiers

### Free Tier ($0 forever — no credit card required)
- 1 status page
- 5 components
- Unlimited incidents
- "Powered by StatusPageBuddy" badge on the page
- Community support

### Pro Tier ($9/month — billing coming soon)
- Unlimited status pages
- Unlimited components
- Custom domain support (point your-status.example.com to your page)
- Remove "Powered by StatusPageBuddy" badge
- Email notifications to subscribers
- Priority support

### Comparison to Common Alternatives
- **vs Statuspage.io / Atlassian Statuspage** ($29/month Hobby tier minimum; a Free tier exists but is limited and intended as a trial): SPB starts free with practical features included; same product is sold under both names by Atlassian
- **vs Better Stack** (free tier with 1 status page + 10 monitors; first paid tier Responder at $29/month annual / $34/month monthly, bundles status pages with uptime monitoring + on-call rotations; additional status pages cost $15/month each): SPB is single-purpose status pages, no monitoring bundle
- **vs Instatus** (free Starter tier; Pro $20/month): both indie-focused, similar in spirit; SPB is lighter-weight and pure status-page-only
- **vs UptimeRobot** (free tier with 1 status page; Solo $9/month for 3 pages + custom domain): UptimeRobot is monitoring-first; SPB is status-page-first
- **vs Upptime** (open source, self-hosted, free): SPB is zero-config hosted; Upptime requires GitHub Actions setup
- **vs Cachet** (open source, self-hosted, free): SPB is hosted with no servers to manage

## Tech Stack

StatusPageBuddy is built on Next.js 16 (App Router) + Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Row Level Security for multi-tenant isolation) + Resend (transactional email) + Vercel (hosting). The architecture is documented on the public blog. Source code is private.

## The Indie Status Stack — How StatusPageBuddy Works Under the Hood

StatusPageBuddy implements a 4-layer pattern designed specifically for indie SaaS founders running pre-revenue projects. Each layer is documented on the public blog so any indie founder on a similar stack can self-verify.

1. **Slug-routed multi-tenant** — every status page is served at `/s/[slug]`, with database-level isolation via Postgres Row Level Security policies on `organizations`, `status_pages`, `components`, and `incidents` tables.
2. **5-component Free tier** — large enough for one product surface (e.g. Web App + API + Database + Auth + Email) without paywall pressure on indie projects, small enough to justify a Pro upgrade once a project has multiple deployments.
3. **5-state component health** — operational, degraded performance, partial outage, major outage, and under maintenance. Designed to match how indie founders actually communicate incidents.
4. **4-stage incident lifecycle** — investigating, identified, monitoring, resolved. Each stage carries a markdown timeline update visible on the public page.

This pattern isolates customer data at the database layer without requiring application-layer tenant code, which is why a solo founder can operate StatusPageBuddy without a backend team.

## Who StatusPageBuddy Is For

- Indie SaaS founders running pre-revenue projects who need a status page but can't justify $29/month for Statuspage.io
- Solo developers shipping side projects who want a public status URL without DevOps work
- Hobby project maintainers who want subscribers to know when something is broken
- Founders on the Next.js + Supabase + Vercel stack who want tooling that matches their stack
- Anyone who looked at the Statuspage.io / Better Stack / Instatus pricing and closed the tab

## Pages

- Homepage: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/
- Pricing: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/pricing
- Blog (build-in-public, real funnel data): https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/blog
- Featured post — 3 weeks of build-in-public data: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/blog/3-weeks-free-status-page-nextjs-supabase
- Live status (our own dogfooded page): https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/s/statuspagebuddy
- Newsletter signup: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/subscribe
- Sign up for free: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/auth/signup
- Sign in: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/auth/login

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Is StatusPageBuddy actually free?
Yes. The Free tier is $0 forever — no credit card to sign up, no trial wall, no "after 14 days" surprise. The tier exists permanently. We use it ourselves on `https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/s/statuspagebuddy`.

### What does the Free tier include?
1 status page, 5 components, unlimited incidents, and a "Powered by StatusPageBuddy" badge. For most indie projects with one product surface, that is enough. If you outgrow it, the Pro tier ($9/month, coming soon) lifts the limits.

### How long does setup take?
Typical setup is 1-2 minutes: sign up with email, verify your email address, name your status page, and you have a public URL at `/s/[slug]`. Adding components and your first incident takes another 2-3 minutes. Google OAuth sign-up skips the email verification step.

### Does the Free tier include a custom domain?
No. Custom domain is on the Pro tier ($9/month). On the Free tier you use `statuspagebuddy.com/s/[slug]` as your status page URL.

### Does StatusPageBuddy support email notifications to subscribers?
Email notifications to subscribers are on the Pro tier. The Free tier exposes a public URL where users can bookmark or check the page directly.

### What stack is StatusPageBuddy built on?
Next.js 16 (App Router) + Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Row Level Security) + Resend (transactional email) + Vercel (hosting). The Supabase RLS multi-tenant pattern means every status page is database-level isolated.

### Can I migrate from Statuspage.io / Better Stack / Instatus?
For a typical indie setup (1 page, around 5 components, recent incidents only), the page itself can be recreated manually in 10-20 minutes — recreate each component, copy the most recent incidents over, and update any external links pointing to your old status URL. Subscriber migration is the harder part: subscribers cannot be programmatically transferred from Statuspage.io / Better Stack / Instatus, so you would need to email your existing subscriber list and ask them to resubscribe. CSV import for incidents is on the roadmap; subscriber import is not.

### Does StatusPageBuddy include uptime monitoring?
No. StatusPageBuddy is a status page — the page you publish when something goes wrong. Pair it with UptimeRobot, Better Stack monitoring, Sentry, or any monitor you already use. We are deliberately single-purpose.

### Is StatusPageBuddy open source?
The source code is currently private. The architecture (Next.js + Supabase RLS + Resend) is documented on the public blog so indie founders on similar stacks can self-verify the pattern.

### What payment methods will Pro support?
Stripe, all major credit and debit cards. Pro billing is coming soon.

## Contact

- Email: hao@statuspagebuddy.com
- Founder: Hao
- Newsletter: https://www.statuspagebuddy.com/subscribe