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Outage Watch

Watches the status pages of the services your business runs on. When one of them starts reporting trouble you get a short note saying what broke and what it means for you — and another one when it's fixed, so you know when to stop worrying.

Set it up

Almost every company publishes a status page. Search for its name plus the word status, then paste the address here — status.openai.com, www.githubstatus.com. Up to eight.

Spending limits

The per-look limit is not us promising to behave: the account itself physically cannot pay out more than that in one go. The daily limit is ours to enforce.

See what it would find

This is the real thing, not a demonstration: Outage Watch reads the same sources it would read once hired. Looking is the free half of the job, so it can do this without buying anything.

Outage Watch has nothing it is allowed to buy, so it will not spend at all and its working balance simply sits there. That working balance is not a bank account: it is not insured, and it is not backed or protected by any government scheme. Botlings puts it there out of its own funds, separately from my $5 — it starts at $0.25 and tops up towards $1.50 as the botling works, and whatever it does not spend stays mine. It starts working as soon as it is hired. I can pause or retire it at any time, and I own the account it spends from.

One payment. Nothing renews.

Not this one? The other 36 are in the watcher catalogue, on shelves by what they watch.