Update 29-06-2020 Last week we released the first version of our OpsGenie integration, making it easier for ourselves and our users to leverage Checkly together with the popular alerting and incident management platform. Here is how it looks like: Our plan is to put additional work into our integration to…
We just closed a $2.25M investment round led by Accel and a pack of top rate Angels. Lots to talk about, here's the itinerary: The vision.Setting goals.A timeline of events.Random learnings.On the investment round.Onwards! The visionLet's start at the end. Three months ago Checkly…
I post openly about MRR, churn and other SaaS stuff on Twitter. I do this mostly for marketing purposes. Not going to lie. It's also kinda fun. At least when things are growing 😅... It's non-vanity metric Sunday! November 2019 Report for https://t.co/eT6akj23MC 💰 $3458 MRR (+$531…
Update 14-11-2019 Just got the dreaded rejection email! Bit disappointed, but not bitter or disillusioned at all. Reasons were: Unclear differentiator from Datadog except price: not sure if I fully agree. Probably need to tweak investor pitch to make this clear.Not having a cofounder: turns out solo-founding in my…
When adding a new feature to Checkly or refactoring some older piece, I tend to pick Heroku for rolling it out. But not always, because sometimes I pick AWS Lambda. The short story: Developer Experience trumps everything.AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts not only…
In a recent post on customer feedback I mentioned being a recent convert to chat widget-driven tools. I thought they sucked, but I was wrong. Since then, I actually switched from Drift to Intercom because Intercom's focus — support & communication — matched my business better than Drift's heavy sales focus. To…
A big part of Checkly runs on AWS Lambda, but I never really discussed it in depth before on this blog. So here we go. Topics are: A little bit on our Lambda setup.Why Lambda is an almost perfect match for SaaS. Especially when you're small.Why I don't…
Ok, not completely true. I also use Stripe, Github, AWS, Heroku, Ghost, AppOptics, Intercom and Mailchimp. And some bookkeeping and tax tools. Don't forget the code editors! But! When I plan my day, I spend most of my time in Trello and Apple's stock Reminders app. I also use Numbers…
Update 14-08-2019: Greenlock is awesome but needs support. If you don't want to code this yourself consider donating $100 or so on their indiegogo page so they can ship Greenlock v3 and stay compatible with the Let's Encrypt API. Recently I pushed a long overdue feature for Checkly: SSL for…
Something different this week. I got an email from an aspiring SaaS bootstrapper. Let's call him John. John explained his working situation at a tech startup and his dream to start a SaaS in the cloud security space by himself. He also had some pretty good questions. I asked John…