We all know that pay is just as hard as it is important. Having a team distributed over 11+ countries makes pay even harder than in a traditional setup. I joined Checkly in mid-2021 with the promise of a fair and transparent culture in a remote tech startup and my…
Recently, GitLab released their '12 Steps to Better Remote [https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/the-gitlab-test-remote-work/] ' test with 12 yes or no questions to assess whether you're running a great remote operation. Checkly is a fully remote startup with 13 employees in 5 countries today. We are growing…
Checkly will use the CRV-led investment to build the best monitoring and E2E-testing platform for developers!…
We recently optimized the hell out of our Lighthouse score, and one of our landing pages went from a low 70s score to a cool 96 and above score.…
Update 29-06-2020 Opsgenie Integration 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…
We just closed a $2.25M investment round led by Accel [https://www.accel.com/] 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 vision Let's start at the…
We are thrilled to announce that we have just raised a $2.25M seed round. This round is led by Accel and some great founders — including current and former executives from Vercel (formerly Zeit), Instana, Twilio and many more.…
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 / +18.12%…
Update 14-11-2019 Just got the dreaded rejection email! Bit disappointed, but not bitter or disillusioned at all. Reasons were: 1. Unclear differentiator from Datadog except price: not sure if I fully agree. Probably need to tweak investor pitch to make this clear. 2. Not having a cofounder: turns out solo-founding…
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: 1. Developer Experience trumps everything. 2. AWS Lambda is cheap. Up to a limit though. This impacts…