Uptime Bot

Why we built Uptime Bot

In a few of our smaller projects, we noticed short outages on the server or API side hours later, through complaints from users. When we looked at the off-the-shelf monitoring tools on the market, they were either overly complex (enterprise packages, dozens of features we wouldn't use) or the price/feature balance didn't make sense for side projects. We decided to build a "simple, cheap, does-the-job" alternative — that's how Uptime Bot (uptimebot.tr) was born.

What is Uptime Bot

Uptime Bot is a site/server monitoring (uptime monitoring) application that checks your website, API or any server service at regular intervals and instantly alerts you if something goes wrong. The goal is simple: you should hear about your site going down from Uptime Bot, not from a customer.

What it offers

• HTTP/TCP/PING monitoring — track a website, an API endpoint or any TCP service.
• Email alerts — instant notification when a monitor goes down and when it comes back.
• SSL certificate tracking — get warned before a certificate expires, no more "certificate expired, site looks unsafe" surprises.
• Public status pages — share the live status of your services with your users transparently.
• Escalating reminders — notifications repeat at set intervals until an outage is resolved, reducing the risk of a single email going unnoticed.
• Maintenance windows — no false "outage" alerts during planned maintenance.

How we built it: technical architecture

We built Uptime Bot end-to-end with our own team. The frontend is Next.js 15 (App Router), TypeScript and Tailwind CSS; the backend runs on Express.js + Prisma ORM with MySQL/MariaDB. A deliberate architectural choice: we didn't need Redis or a Docker-based queue system to distribute the monitoring work across multiple "workers" (check processes) — instead we wrote our own horizontally scalable scheduler logic that works through atomic claimed_by/claimed_at updates on MySQL. On the first failed check (emergency check), the check frequency automatically increases — this distinguishes brief network blips from a real outage and avoids unnecessary alerts. We integrated Paddle for payments; nothing from pricing to the site copy in the admin panel is hardcoded — it's all managed from the database.

Who it's for

We built this for developers, agencies and small teams with a side project, a small SaaS or client sites — a budget-friendly solution that meets the "be the first to know when your site goes down" need, without the complexity and cost of enterprise monitoring tools.

Pricing

Plan	Price	Monitors	Check frequency
Free	$0/mo	Up to 20	300 sec
Pro	$1.99/mo	Up to 100	60 sec
Team	$5.99/mo	Up to 500	30 sec

The free plan starts without requiring a credit card; all plans include email alerts and a status page. See current pricing at uptimebot.tr/pricing.

Conclusion

Uptime Bot is an example of both a need we had ourselves and our end-to-end approach to software development and project consulting. If you have a similar idea and want to bring it to life, get in touch here; if you'd like to try Uptime Bot directly, you can start for free at uptimebot.tr.