Get pinged the moment your app goes completely down - shippingszn launch readiness
An external service that pings your site every minute or so. If it ever fails to respond, you get a text or email within minutes — even at 3am. Different from error monitoring, which only works when your app is up enough to phone home.
When your app is fully dead — server crashed, database unreachable, deployment broke — your error tracker can't tell you because it's also down or never sees the requests. The only thing that catches a total outage is something completely outside your stack pinging you from the outside. Most early-stage apps find out they're down from a customer complaint hours later.
Owner verification required: External uptime monitors live in a provider dashboard, not in the codebase. The scanner cannot prove the production URL is being checked from multiple regions or that alerts reach your phone.
The Launch Fix Kit keeps scan-specific findings, file and line evidence, AI-builder punch-list tasks, and verification steps tied to the paid report.
- Sign up for UptimeRobot (free tier is fine for one site), Better Stack, or Pingdom.
- Add monitors for: your homepage, your login page, and a /health endpoint on your backend.
- Configure alerts to BOTH email and your phone (SMS or push) — pick whatever wakes you up.
- Add a /health endpoint to your backend that does a quick database query and returns 200 only if everything works. Otherwise the monitor will say 'up' even when the database is dead.
- Turn on the public status page (most providers include this free) and link to it from your footer or feedback widget — saves you from being flooded with 'is it down?' messages.
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