Articles by rozenmd
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Ask HN: Was HN just down for anyone else?

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What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones? (lumafield.com)

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OnlineOrNot's lessons from Cloudflare's outage on 2025-11-18 (onlineornot.com)

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You can just build things (maxrozen.com)

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You can just build things (maxrozen.com)

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Lessons from four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)

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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)

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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market (maxrozen.com)

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Show HN: I built a curl command builder to learn curl (onlineornot.com)

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Monitoring your web application as a small team (onlineornot.com)

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Learning Curl from Scratch (onlineornot.com)

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2024, and What's Next for OnlineOrNot (onlineornot.com)

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I built for the problem I have today (maxrozen.com)

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I halved my AWS bill (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 22 – on successfully leaving AWS Lambda (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill (onlineornot.com)

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Keystatic: Open-Source Astro/Next.js CMS (keystatic.com)

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Yaak Is Now Open Source (yaak.app)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 21 (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 20 – on dipping my toe in enterprise sales (maxrozen.com)

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How to be a (good) podcast guest (scalingdevtools.com)

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On how I got my first ten customers (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 19 (maxrozen.com)

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Improving your on-call schedule with runbooks (onlineornot.com)

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On sugar-surge marketing – OnlineOrNot Diaries 19 (maxrozen.com)

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Lessons from my third year running a SaaS (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot Updates from January (onlineornot.com)

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Show HN: Get HTTP Status: a tool for testing HTTP status codes (gethttpstatus.com)

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On building HTTP API docs from scratch (onlineornot.com)

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I built my HTTP API docs from scratch (onlineornot.com)

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Ask HN: Do you send free trial abandonment emails?

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Thoughts on which tech to use to build an online business

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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off (maxrozen.com)

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On getting my first ten customers (onlineornot.com)

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Starting a Cloudflare Worker from Scratch (maxrozen.com)

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How to get your first ten customers (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 16: I started sending JavaScript, and no one noticed (maxrozen.com)

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Everything you wanted to know about cron jobs in a single place (onlineornot.com)

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Everything you wanted to know about cron jobs in a single place (onlineornot.com)

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Show HN: OnlineOrNot – Cron Job Monitoring (onlineornot.com)

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Building a SaaS in one week: How I built OnlineOrNot (2021) (onlineornot.com)

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PartyKit raises a pre-seed round of $2.5M from Sequoia, Remote First, and more (partykit.io)

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Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 15: Back in the arena (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 14: building what users need (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 14: Building what people ask for (maxrozen.com)

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Ways to avoid losing your domain (onlineornot.com)

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Show HN: Website Down Checker (onlineornot.com)

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Ways to avoid losing your domain (onlineornot.com)

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Ask HN: Is your blog/website behind a CDN?

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 12 – On failure, learning sales, and quitting ads (maxrozen.com)

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Show HN: Do I Need a CDN? (onlineornot.com)

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My lessons from the latest AWS us-east-1 outage (onlineornot.com)

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Ask HN: If Google Workspace/Gsuite disappeared tomorrow, where would you go?

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My SaaS's lessons from the latest us-east-1 outage (onlineornot.com)

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Dispelling a myth: the average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute (onlineornot.com)

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The average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot: Updates from May (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 11 – on breaking through a revenue plateau (maxrozen.com)

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A collection of incident management guides (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 11 – breaking through a revenue plateau (maxrozen.com)

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Monitoring your application as a solo founder (onlineornot.com)

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Monitoring my own website, as an uptime monitoring service (onlineornot.com)

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The Mirrortocracy (2014) (bueno.org)

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Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service (cloudflare.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 10: on re-rearchitecting my SaaS on AWS (maxrozen.com)

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Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

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Ask HN: Does your team run recurring scripts/tasks in production?

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OnlineOrNot Diaries #6: A new monitoring service for OnlineOrNot (maxrozen.com)

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On Writing Better Error Messages (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 5: doubling my conversion rate without trying too hard (maxrozen.com)

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Guidelines for Writing Better Runbooks (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 4: on ripping out product analytics and more (maxrozen.com)

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Getting your own good enough laptop for under $500 (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries #3: Marketing week? More like reliability week (maxrozen.com)

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The unreasonable effectiveness of shipping every day (onlineornot.com)

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Monitoring Our Monitoring (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 2 (maxrozen.com)

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OnlineOrNot's open-source uptime check CLI (onlineornot.com)

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Moving over a million uptime checks per week from Lambda to Fly.io (onlineornot.com)

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OnlineOrNot Diaries 1 (maxrozen.com)

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What I learned running a SaaS for a second year (onlineornot.com)

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Replacing my MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480 (maxrozen.com)

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What I learned running a SaaS for its second year (onlineornot.com)

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2022: I Just Kept Shipping (maxrozen.com)

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Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about Getting Started Testing React (maxrozen.com)

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On How I Became a React Developer (maxrozen.com)

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The Beginner's Guide to React Testing (maxrozen.com)

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Blogging lessons from working for a large blogging company (maxrozen.com)

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Monitoring your application as a solo founder (onlineornot.com)

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There exists a book dedicated to explaining how to use a single React function (twitter.com/tomaka17)

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Saving your team from alert fatigue (onlineornot.com)

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Saving your team from alert fatigue (onlineornot.com)

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Monitoring your application as a solo founder (onlineornot.com)

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Real-Time Chat for Trello (rozenmd.com)

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Ask HN: It's Demo Day. What are you working on?

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On shipping code every day

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The unreasonable effectiveness of shipping every day

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Show HN: I built a 3rd-party status page for GitHub on Cloudflare Pages