Why We Built Chirp
The problem
Every status page tool on the market falls into one of two camps:
Enterprise tools like Statuspage.io and PagerDuty. They're powerful but expensive ($29-100+/mo), complex to set up, and designed for teams with dedicated DevOps engineers. If you're a solo founder shipping a SaaS, you don't need on-call scheduling for a team of one.
Bare-bones free tools like UptimeRobot. They'll ping your site and send you an email when it's down. But the status pages look like an afterthought, there's no incident management, and you're on your own for communicating with users.
There's nothing in between for the person running a real product solo, whose users deserve to know what's going on, but who doesn't have time to draft status updates during an outage.
So we built Chirp.
What makes Chirp different
We built it for indie hackers. Not enterprises, not agencies with 50+ engineers. The person running 2-3 SaaS projects who needs monitoring and a status page without the complexity.
The AI is the part I'm most proud of. When your site goes down on a Saturday night, Chirp writes the incident message for you. When you push a fix, it suggests an update. When the incident is over, it writes the summary. You review and publish instead of drafting from scratch while half-asleep.
Pricing is simple: free tier gets you a status page, 3 components, and 3 monitors. Pro is $9/mo for more of everything plus custom domains. No per-seat pricing, no usage surprises.
And honestly, I wanted status pages to have some personality. When everything's running fine, Chirp says "All quiet in the nest." During incidents, it switches to clear, direct language. Professional but not robotic.
What we've shipped so far
We launched in January 2026 and have been shipping fast:
- Status pages with public URLs, subscriber notifications, and custom domains
- Uptime monitoring with automatic incident creation when your endpoints go down
- SSL certificate monitoring with progressive expiry alerts
- Heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs and background workers that can't be pinged from the outside
- AI-powered incidents - generation, update suggestions, component descriptions, and post-incident summaries
- Email subscriptions with double opt-in and branded notifications
What's next
Multi-region monitoring, Slack/Discord notifications, and whatever our users ask for.
Building in public
Chirp is being built in public. You can follow along on X where we share progress, decisions, and the occasional debugging horror story.
If you're an indie hacker who needs a status page, give Chirp a try. It's free to start, takes 2 minutes to set up, and your users will thank you for it.