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

3 hours ago | rozenmd | lumafield.com | frontpage

1

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

a week ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

You can just build things (maxrozen.com)

3 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

You can just build things (maxrozen.com)

3 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

4

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

7 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

8

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

7 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

3

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

7 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

9 months ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

10 months ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

Learning Curl from Scratch (onlineornot.com)

10 months ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

10 months ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

11 months ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

I halved my AWS bill (onlineornot.com)

11 months ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | keystatic.com | newest

8

Yaak Is Now Open Source (yaak.app)

a year ago | rozenmd | yaak.app | newest

1

OnlineOrNot Diaries 21 (maxrozen.com)

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | rozenmd | scalingdevtools.com | newest

5

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

1

OnlineOrNot Diaries 19 (maxrozen.com)

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

14

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

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | best

3

OnlineOrNot Updates from January (onlineornot.com)

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

a year ago | rozenmd | gethttpstatus.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

5

Ask HN: Do you send free trial abandonment emails?

a year ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | newest

2

Thoughts on which tech to use to build an online business

a year ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | newest

92

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

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | best

1

On getting my first ten customers (onlineornot.com)

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

3

Starting a Cloudflare Worker from Scratch (maxrozen.com)

a year ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

4

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

a year ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

3

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

4

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | partykit.io | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

Ways to avoid losing your domain (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

Show HN: Website Down Checker (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

Ways to avoid losing your domain (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

8

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | frontpage

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

4

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

35

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | frontpage

4

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

OnlineOrNot: Updates from May (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

A collection of incident management guides (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

The Mirrortocracy (2014) (bueno.org)

2 years ago | rozenmd | bueno.org | newest

92

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | cloudflare.com | best

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

58

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | frontpage

3

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

6

On Writing Better Error Messages (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

Guidelines for Writing Better Runbooks (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

3

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

6

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

1

Monitoring Our Monitoring (onlineornot.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

1

OnlineOrNot Diaries 2 (maxrozen.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

4

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

OnlineOrNot Diaries 1 (maxrozen.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

7

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

237

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | best

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

2022: I Just Kept Shipping (maxrozen.com)

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

2 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

1

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

2

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | maxrozen.com | newest

4

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

23

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | twitter.com | best

2

Saving your team from alert fatigue (onlineornot.com)

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

Saving your team from alert fatigue (onlineornot.com)

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

1

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

2

Real-Time Chat for Trello (rozenmd.com)

3 years ago | rozenmd | rozenmd.com | newest

12

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | frontpage

1

On shipping code every day

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

3

The unreasonable effectiveness of shipping every day

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | frontpage

2

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

3 years ago | rozenmd | onlineornot.com | newest

4

Ask HN: Which services/providers take the longest to update their status page?

3 years ago | rozenmd | ycombinator.com | newest