Show HN: CalmCanary – Uptime Monitoring Tool
This is part of my experiment to see if I can build a SaaS in an agentic world. I've been wanting to put something out in the wild for a while. I think that although we have agents that can build stuff and deploy it to any hosting solution, we still need to be assured that the system is available and working. Although I've started with a very thin product, I'm solo building this out to support a few use-cases that I think might be quite cool. Under-the-hood I've actually used Elixir to help make
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Source account: This is part of my experiment to see if I can build a SaaS in an agentic world. I've been wanting to put something out in the wild for a while. I think that although we have agents that can build stuff and deploy it to any hosting solution, we still need to be assured that the system is available and working. Although I've started with a very thin product, I'm solo building this out to support a few use-cases that I think might be quite cool. Under-the-hood I've actually used Elixir to help make
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Source votes: 1 votes (Nov 6, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication); previous same-scope observation: 1 (Nov 5, 2026 UTC). These observations do not establish demand growth. Recent records to compare: “Show HN: Context by Altora (YC W27), screen, audio, location 24/7 for agents” (Show HN, Nov 6, 2026); “Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them” (Hacker News, Nov 6, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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