FetchPing started as a single cron job.
I kept missing outages on my own projects. A side project would go down at 3am and I would not find out until someone emailed me the next morning. The tools I looked at were either priced for companies with real revenue, or so heavy that setting one up felt like a second job.
So I wrote something small. A script that pinged my sites every few minutes and messaged me on Discord when one stopped answering. It was rough, but it worked, and the awkward "hey, your site is down" emails stopped coming.
Over time I kept adding to it. More monitor types, real alerting, status pages, checks from more than one region. At some point it stopped being a script and became an actual product. FetchPing is that product, cleaned up and opened to everyone.
It is still just me building it, which keeps it focused on the part that matters: catching downtime fast and telling you about it without the noise.
