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Tinypulse Probe
Tiny server probe with uptime checks, alerts and a status page
- Score
- 53
- confidence 46
- Evidence
- 1
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 30 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 1999
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: DevOps engineers set up and review server dashboards at desks, but need to acknowledge alerts from phones while on-call or away. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
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About this appAI proposal
Tinypulse Probe is a small agent you run on a server. It reports CPU, memory, disk and service checks to a simple dashboard, and it checks your public endpoints from outside to track uptime. One binary, one config file, no cluster to run.
It is built for sysadmins, DevOps engineers and small teams who want to know when something is down without running a full monitoring platform. Alerts go to email, chat webhooks or phone push, and a public status page can be shared with customers.
The difference is weight. The probe is meant to idle at a very small footprint, set up in minutes, and show only what answers the question: is it up, and if not, why. The hosted dashboard is optional.
- Tagline
- Know when it's down. Barely notice it's running.
- Voice
- CalmPlainPrecise
- Why this name
- Tiny says light; pulse says a heartbeat check on your servers. Two plain words, easy to say aloud on a call.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
One-file install
Download the probe, edit a short config, start it. It registers with your dashboard using a single token.
No member yet
Light on the host
Collects core host metrics at a low rate so the monitor does not become the thing that slows your server.
No member yet
Outside uptime checks
HTTP, TCP and ping checks run on a schedule, with retries before an alert to reduce false alarms.
No member yet
Alerts that route
Send to email, webhooks or push. Set quiet hours and an on-call order per group of servers.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Tinypulse Probe
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. Tiers are a starting point to test, built on the inferred freemium model with a free open-source core.
Open core
Free
- Self-hosted probe
- Local status output
- Webhook alerts
Team
$12 a month
- Hosted dashboard
- 10 servers
- Outside uptime checks
- Push and email alerts
- Public status page
Business
$49 a month
- 50 servers
- Uptime reports
- Priority support
- Team on-call routing
Would you pay Team · $12 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Shared outputs. Teams publish a status page and uptime report links to their customers. Each page carries a small 'Monitored by Tinypulse' line linking back.
- Do they become customers?
- Status page visitors are mostly customers of our customers, and few run servers. Test whether the footer link brings sign-ups from technical readers.
- First customers
- Small agencies and SaaS teams of 2 to 10 people running 5 to 30 self-managed servers, with one sysadmin or DevOps person.
- Where to reach them
- GitHub and open-source repo: Offer the free probe to the repository's existing audience and invite them to try the hosted dashboard.
- Sysadmin communities: Share a setup walkthrough and footprint comparison in forums and subreddits for self-hosters and sysadmins.
- First milestone
- Ten teams on the hosted dashboard, with five paying for the Team tier within 60 days of launch.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 340 stars in 49 days
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Probe agentSmall Rust binary, cross-compiledRuns on the monitored host with minimal memory and CPU, sending metrics to the dashboard over HTTPS.
- This app · Check schedulerDistributed worker regions for outside checksUptime checks need to run on a schedule from several locations, which Vercel functions alone do not suit.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialFree monitors and open-source tools are common. Teams may stay on the free core and never pay for the hosted dashboard.
- TechnicalReliable alerting needs the checker itself to be highly available; missed or false alerts would destroy trust quickly.
- PlatformPush notifications from a PWA are less reliable on some phones, which matters for night-time alerts.
- DataMetrics and hostnames from customers' servers are sensitive. The agent needs a clear, minimal data policy and secure tokens.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.