Show HN: Weekend project – Alerts for broken public URLs via Slack / Telegram

1 0xsahilk 0 8/5/2025, 11:38:58 AM

Over the weekend, I hacked together a tiny tool to help devs keep track of their deployed URLs (apps, docs, testnets, etc). We had too many incidents where something silently broke and no one noticed for hours.

So this tool: - Checks up to 5 URLs (free tier) - Sends 2–3x/day status summary to Slack or Telegram - No login, no config — just paste + pick your alert channel

Would love feedback from anyone shipping Web3 stuff or client work. Happy to share the demo link!

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Show HN: Weekend project – Alerts for broken public URLs via Slack / Telegram

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