Client-site uptime monitoring and reports for freelance web designers
Monitor uptime, SSL and domain expiry for client sites on any platform, and send clients branded monthly reports.
- Micro-SaaS
- Developer Tools
- Medium build
- 6-10 weekends
- Researched by ProjPilot
The problem
Freelance web designers sell maintenance plans, then need proof that client sites stayed up and certificates stayed valid. WordPress management tools bundle uptime checks and client reports, but many clients now run Squarespace, Wix, Shopify or Webflow sites those tools don't cover. General uptime services are priced per monitor and built for alerting, so turning them into client reports is manual work.
For: Freelance web designers · Small web agencies · Webflow and Shopify developers
Why now
Amazon Web Services' US-East-1 region had a disruption lasting about 14.5 hours on October 19-20, 2025, and Cloudflare's network failed to deliver core traffic for about three hours on November 18, 2025.
Demand signals
Monthly Google searches in the US, pulled 2026-09-24. These are the words people with this problem actually type.
What exists already
- ManageWP ↗Uptime monitoring and client reports at $1 per site per month each, but for WordPress sites only.
- UptimeRobot ↗Generous free plan (50 monitors, 5-minute checks); Solo is $12/month billed yearly for 10 monitors with 60-second checks.
- Better Stack ↗Free for personal projects; paid plans are priced per responder ($29/month billed yearly) and aimed at on-call teams.
MVP scope
- Uptime, keyword, SSL-expiry and domain-expiry checks for any site
- Client folders with branded monthly PDF and email reports
- Alerts to the designer by email, SMS or Slack
- Optional public status page per client
- Incident notes that appear in the next report
- Bulk import of client sites from a CSV
How it could make money
- $19/month for up to 25 client sites
- $49/month for up to 100 sites, white-label reports included
Suggested stack
- Cloudflare Workers (Cron Triggers)
- D1 or Turso for check results
- react-pdf for report PDFs
Sources
- Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region (AWS) (accessed 2026-09-24)
- Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 (Cloudflare blog) (accessed 2026-09-24)
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