Healthchecks.io
👤 Peteris Caune (Veteran Python dev from Latvia who ran it transparently and fairly for 9 years — patience and trust, not funding, is his edge.)🌐 sitemonkeyseemonkeydo.lvLinkedIn
He found the incumbents overpriced, so he open-sourced a cheaper cron monitor. 9 years on, it's his full-time salary.
Will it work? · our read
Fairness compounds. A solo, open-source cron monitor paying a full-time salary. Radical fairness and 9 years of trust beat a fancier feature set. Small by design, and hard to dislodge.
01How the money moves
A team's nightly backup cron dies silently — nobody notices for days
→
They wire a 2-line HTTP ping into the job; Healthchecks learns its schedule
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Ping goes missing -> instant alert. Teams pay $20-80/mo for that safety net
02The numbers
$14,043
MRR (Jul 2024)
founder
652
paying customers
founder
9 yrs
solo & profitable
founder
All three are first-party, from Caune's own July 2024 blog post — not estimates. Founder blog, Jul 2024
About $168K ARR from 652 payers — a full-time salary for one, disclosed on his own blog.
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Founder blog: 'Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In' — $14,043 MRR, 652 payers (Jul 2024)Healthchecks.io About — solo, Valmiera Latvia, open-source (BSD), self-hostablePricing — free 20-check tier, Business $20/mo, Business Plus $80/moIndie Hackers — Healthchecks.io revenue profile
Revenue is first-party: $14,043 MRR and 652 payers come from Caune's own July 2024 blog post (verified, STATED). Latka estimates a lower about $111.5K ARR; we trust his disclosed figure. Origin ('the existing services were overpriced') is his documented quote. Drama is mild — this won on patience, trust, and fair pricing, not a single dramatic move; the open-source bet is real and documented. We never score you.