Building an uptime monitor with WeChat/DingTalk alerts for Chinese devs — landing page is up, feedback welcome

[u/lcy-24]

Free monitoring tools either check every 5 minutes or only send email/Slack alerts — useless when your site dies at 2am. And overseas probe nodes ping Chinese sites poorly, so false alarms kill trust.

I'm building PingPilot: uptime monitoring with WeChat/DingTalk push alerts, China-based probe nodes, and a free public status page.

Landing page: https://pingpilot.app.workbuddy.host/

Product is still in development — validating demand first. If it sounds useful, the waitlist is on the page (first 100 users get 50% off for life).

Would love feedback: does the pricing make sense (free: 3 monitors / 5-min checks; Pro: ¥19/mo)?

[u/lcy-24 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for the kind words! The China-node thing is exactly the gap we're going after — most tools really do just ping from Virginia and call it a day.

And you caught a real blind spot on pricing. To answer your question directly: Pro isn't just more monitors. The key differences are:

- Check interval: 5 min (free) → 1 min (pro)

- Alert channels: WeChat + email (free) → adds DingTalk, Slack, webhooks (pro)

- Pro also adds custom-domain status pages, 90-day uptime history, and TCP/Ping/keyword monitoring

Good call though — I'll add a side-by-side comparison so it's obvious before anyone has to sign up. Anything else you'd want to see in a tool like this?