I Built a Website Uptime Monitor in a Weekend — Here's the Stack

Every developer has been there — your site goes down and you find out from a user tweet, not your monitoring. I built PingBase to fix this. It checks your website every minute from multiple locations and alerts you instantly when something breaks. Why Another Monitoring Tool? Most monitoring tools are either: Too expensive — Pingdom starts at $15/mo for 10 monitors Too complex — Datadog is amazing but overkill for a simple "is my site up?" check Too limited — UptimeRobot's free tier only checks every 5 minutes PingBase is simple: enter a URL, get alerts when it's down. Free tier included. The Stack Next.js on Vercel (Edge Functions + Cron Jobs) Supabase for database (monitors, check logs, incidents) Vercel Cron for scheduled checks Webhooks for instant alerts How It Works You add a URL to monitor Every minute, PingBase pings your URL from multiple locations If it fails 3 consecutive times → you get an alert When it recovers → incident is auto-resolved Features 60-second checks from 5 g