"Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, let users show you what to change, change it, repeat last two." -PG<p>Summary:
StatusDashboard is a hosted app that let's companies easily build a status dashboard for external services like SaaS applications and APIs or internal IT services like email, phone, wireless internet, etc. (similar to Google Apps Status Dashboard or Amazon EC2). The dashboard can be shared by link or embedded into an company's web-site.<p>There are plenty of alternatives (including rolling your own and open source offerings). But the target market for this product just wants it up and running now without any hassle.<p>Goals of project:<p>-Address a pain point I had (prevent help desk flooding when a service goes down)<p>-Learn RoR (Looked at Ruby for the first time 3 weeks ago...loving it so far)<p>-Learn day-to-day operations for the basic SaaS components, before I launch my "real product":
* Hosting (Heroku)
* Payment Gateways (Authorize.net)
* Recurring Billing (Chargify)
* Support (ZenDesk)
* Mail Transport (SendGrid)
* Mailing List Mgmt (MailChimp)
* Lots of other things (Adwords, marketing, analytics, community feedback, etc.)<p>Thanks in advance for your feedback.
I would suggest a demo link be available instead-of/next-to the Try It Now link button on the home page. I was interested in trying it now but I don't want to pay $10 just to see what it is. The fact that there is "No Risk" is not important to me at this stage.