I got hit by a 4× price hike – so I built my own uptime monitor In July 2025, my monitoring bill went from $8 → $34/month . Same service. Same monitors. Just… 4× the price. I was running a handful of side projects (5–10 apps), nothing crazy. But suddenly monitoring became one of my biggest recurring costs. That forced a decision: Pay it (and accept the new normal) Cut monitoring (not great…) Or build something myself I chose option 3. What I actually needed (and probably you too) When I looked at my usage, I realized I wasn’t using 90% of the features. What I really needed was simple: Reliable HTTP checks Fast alerts when things break Coverage from multiple regions A clean status page That’s it. So I’m building Uptimely A minimal uptime monitoring tool focused on the essentials: 1-minute checks Monitoring from EU / US / AS Alerts via Slack, Telegram, Webhooks, Email Simple branded status pages SSL monitoring No feature overload. No complicated tiers.…