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Lanternpost
Self-hosted uptime monitoring and public status page in one container
- Score
- 59
- confidence 53
- Evidence
- 13
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 6
- named in sources
- First version
- 20 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 1999
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: DevOps engineers monitor uptime history, configure checks, manage alerts, and post incident updates from a desk with keyboard work and dashboard viewing. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Monitors
1 incident open99.97%
About this appAI proposal
Lanternpost is an uptime monitor and public status page in a single container. Start it with one command, add your services, and it checks them over HTTP(S), TCP, ping and page keywords on the intervals you set. Results stay in a local database on your own server.
It is made for DevOps engineers and technical teams who want to self-host monitoring for reasons of cost, privacy or control. Alerts go out by email, webhook and chat. Incidents and maintenance notes are posted to a status page on your own domain.
Self-hosted setups often need one tool for checks and another for the status page. Lanternpost combines them. An optional add-on runs checks from outside your network, so you still hear about an outage that takes down the host Lanternpost runs on.
- Tagline
- A light on your services, kept on your own server.
- Voice
- CalmPlainDependable
- Why this name
- A lantern post is a lamp you keep lit at the edge of your property to show what is there. It suits a monitor you host yourself.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
HTTP, TCP, ping and keyword checks
Set the interval and timeout per monitor. Check that a page returns the right status code, or that a given word appears in the response.
No member yet
Uptime and response-time history
Each monitor shows uptime percentages and a response-time chart, so you see slow periods as well as outages.
No member yet
Alerts with retries and recovery
Email, generic webhook and chat alerts. Retries cut false alarms, and a recovery message is sent when the service is back.
No member yet
Public status page on your domain
Group components, show current state and past uptime, and serve the page from your own custom domain.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Lanternpost
PricingAI proposal
The material gives PagerDuty's paid plans from $21 a month and Uptimerobot's single paid plan at €41 a month. These tiers are a starting point to test flat pricing against them, not a verified price.
Core
Free
- All check types and alerts
- Public status page, custom domain
- Incident and maintenance posts
- Single admin login
Team
$79 once
- Extra team accounts
- Flat price, no per-seat fees
- Updates for one year
Outside probes
$12 a month
- Checks from outside your network
- Outage alerts if the host is down
- Works with any Core or Team install
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. Each public status page is seen by the customers of the teams using Lanternpost. A small, removable 'Powered by Lanternpost' link on the page points visitors to the product.
- Do they become customers?
- Visitors to a status page are mostly end customers, and few run their own infrastructure. Test whether the link leads technical visitors to try the Core tier, and whether any of them pay.
- First customers
- DevOps engineers and small technical teams of 2 to 20 people, running their own servers, who care about data staying in-house and want one tool for monitoring and status page.
- Where to reach them
- Self-hosting communities: Share the one-command setup and a write-up in forums and subreddits for people who run their own servers.
- GitHub and Show HN: Publish the free Core tier's docs and a demo status page, and answer issues quickly.
- DevOps newsletters: Offer a short guide on replacing separate monitor and status-page tools with one container.
- First milestone
- Fifty active Core installs and ten paying customers for Team or Outside probes within 60 days of launch.
Why people already pay for this
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 92219 stars in 1924 days
- Public claimThe repository has significant adoption with high star count and fork count indicating strong community interest in self-hosted monitoring solutions.
- AI inferenceThe tool is actively maintained and widely used, as evidenced by 92219 stars and 8527 forks on GitHub, showing strong market demand for self-hosted alternatives.
- VerifiedGitHub repository gained 12268 stars in 2592 days
- AI inference
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 · Container packagingSingle Docker image with embedded SQLiteCustomers run it on their own server with one command and no separate database.
- This app · Check runnerBackground worker for TCP, ping and HTTP checksChecks must run on timers inside the container, not only on request.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialPopular open-source self-hosted monitors and status pages already exist and are free. Teams may see no reason to switch or pay. Demand for a combined tool must be tested.
- TechnicalRaw ping and TCP checks from inside a container need network permissions that some hosts restrict. Setup problems could undermine the one-command promise.
- CommercialWillingness to pay for outside probes is unproven. Operating probe nodes adds running cost and a hosted service to a product sold as self-hosted.
- TechnicalA monitor on the host it watches can fail with it. Without the add-on, a full host outage may go unreported, which could hurt trust.
- Intellectual propertyOpen-source projects in this space are widely known. Name, look and wording need a trademark check and must stay clearly different.
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.