I built an uptime monitor after Freshping shut down — here's what I learned

I built an uptime monitor after Freshping shut down — here's what I learned On March 6, 2026, Freshping shut down with about two weeks notice. I'd been using it for years. 1-minute checks, multi-location alerts, public status pages — all free, no credit card, no friction. When the shutdown email hit my inbox, I went looking for a replacement and couldn't find one I was happy with. So I built StatusPulse. This is the story of what I built, how it went, and what surprised me along the way. The gap Freshping left behind Most of the "Freshping alternatives" people recommended fell into one of two buckets: Bucket 1: Worse free tiers. UptimeRobot drops you to 5-minute check intervals on the free plan. For a production API, that means you can be down for up to 5 minutes before you know about it. Freshping was 1-minute. That matters. Bucket 2: Enterprise pricing. Datadog, New Relic, Pingdom — all excellent products, all priced for DevOps teams with budgets. I'm a solo founder. I don't have a b