Why I Built an Alternative to Sentry (That Doesn’t Overcomplicate Monitoring) Sentry is powerful. No argument there. But for a lot of developers, it’s also: too heavy too complex and sometimes overkill Especially if you just want one thing: Know when your app breaks. That’s why I built Watchup. 👉 https://watchup.site The Problem with Most Monitoring Tools Modern monitoring tools are designed for scale: large teams complex infrastructures deep observability pipelines But if you're: building a startup running side projects managing a few APIs You don’t need all that. You need: simple setup fast alerts clear signal when something goes wrong What Developers Actually Need In most real-world cases, the core needs are simple: Is my service up? Is it throwing errors? Is it getting slower? That’s it. Not: 50 dashboards complex tracing setups or hours of configuration What Watchup Does Differently Watchup strips monitoring down to the essentials.…