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The Growth Hacker Movement Is Poisonous
The growth hacker movement has been all the rage for the past year and it's becoming poisonous. Everyone and their mother is writing about "How to do the growth hack!" - the term is quickly becoming...
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Mailgun Postmortem - Transparency At Its Finest
Last week, Mailgun experienced a significant backup of messages, leading to email delays and duplication. As a Mailgun customer that relies on sending email notifications, this issue affected us and...
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Good User Experience Means More Than A Good Product
Most definitions of User Experience center around how the user feels while using a certain product. When people write about User Experience, they usually focus specifically on the features/usability of...
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Incident Update & Postmortem Redesign
It's been too long since our last product update. Since Y Combinator ended, we've been heads down working on some awesome features. A few of these features will be released in November, but in the...
View ArticleHow StatusPage.io Was Built
Scott recently took some time to discuss the early stages of StatusPage with Yonas Beshawred, Founder of Leanstack.io. Here are a few highlights and you can also read through the interview in it's...
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Startup Sales For Founders. Part 1 - Tool Up.
This is the kickoff of a series of blog posts on building a SaaS sales process for startup founders. As a founder wearing many hats, it's easy to be overwhelmed by a non stop flood of trello cards,...
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A StatusPage.io Bootcamp Leads To Three New Features
As many of you know, we're a distributed team. While we think we do a pretty good job at working remotely, the human aspect of face to face communication and hanging out is impossible to replace with...
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Growing From $5,000 to $25,000 in MRR
Back in July we wrote a post on 5 steps to $5,000 in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and promised we would write follow up posts for $25k, and $100k in MRR. We're excited to announce we've reached...
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Campfire Integration Launched!
A month ago, we rolled out our new Activity Log with a built in HipChat integration. Today, we're excited to add Campfire to the mix! Similar to our HipChat integration, any Campfire customer can now...
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Getting The Right Notification To The Right User
Over the past few months we've heard a request from many of our larger customers: "We need more relevant customer notifications." Digging in a bit further, the issue with general notifications for...
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Happy Birthday StatusPage.io!
Well, we've officially turned one year old . As we look back over our first year, we're proud of what we've accomplished but we're more excited for what's to come in our second year. Here are some...
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New And Improved Custom HTML/CSS Editor
We're happy to announce some improvements to the Custom HTML/CSS editor. The UI looks quite similar but you'll notice two enhancements.Better UsabilityThe old editor windows were hard to work with at...
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Customer Specific Status Pages
A few months ago we launched Component Subscriptions as our first step towards getting the right notification to the right end user. Today, we’re taking this concept to the next level with...
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StatusPage / Slack Integration
A couple of us are here in Portland for Monitorama this week, and hooked up with the team at Slack to get an integration done while we listened to lots of talks, ate many donuts, and observed general...
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Why Founders Shouldn't Delegate Support Too Early
When we launched StatusPage.io in February of 2013, there were only two people on the team. The two of us were responsible for every single function of the company: building product, writing blog...
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We're Moving To An Add-On Store Model
In order to further improve our first time user experience, we're moving to an "Add-on Store" model of selectively hiding features. The Add-on Store will allow you to enhance or turn on features that...
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Integrating StatusPage.io with PagerDuty
Today, we’re extremely excited to announce a new integration with PagerDuty, allowing all PagerDuty and StatusPage.io customers to automatically update StatusPage components, and post StatusPage.io...
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Embed System Status Within Your Webapp
StatusPage.io customers have always been able to embed data from their status page within their app, but now it's easier than ever. We recently released a completely revamped API interface to easily...
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Our User Onboarding Toolbox
They say first impressions are everything. Well, it's as true for your startup as is it for anything else. If users don't have a great experience the first time they use your product, it's likely they...
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StatusPage.io HipChat Add-On Launched
StatusPage.io is now an official HipChat add-on, eliminating the need to paste API keys and allowing all HipChat users to install the integration in just a few clicks. Using the add-on, users can...
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