🚀 probes.dev is Released!

At Limeleaf, we like to keep things simple. When we built apply.coop, the concept was intentionally straightforward: a lean, values-driven job board that just worked. We didn’t need a mountain of complex features to solve a clear problem, and we certainly didn't need a bloated tech stack to back it up. We take the same minimalist approach to our Bluesky Directory and Henhouse products.

Lately, we’ve found ourselves looking at our own infrastructure monitoring and feeling a familiar itch. The uptime monitoring world has gotten... enterprisey. It’s full of heavy dashboards, endless configurations, enterprise upsells, and platforms trying to be absolutely everything to everyone.

We didn’t need or want all that. We just wanted to know if our web services were running.

So, in true Limeleaf fashion, we built it ourselves. Today, we’re incredibly excited to open the doors to probes.dev.

What is probes.dev?

It is quite intentionally the simplest uptime monitoring tool you will ever use.

The concept is straightforward: you give us a URL, and we check it. If it goes down, we let you know. No enterprise bloat, no high-pressure sales funnels, and no confusing pricing tier structures. We wanted a tool that felt fast, stayed out of your way, and did exactly what it promised. Under the hood, we're relying on the same fast, predictable, and rock-solid Go architecture we love using for the Small Web.

Every probes.dev account includes a status page for your probed services. You can see the one for Limeleaf services here.

Sustainable Growth

If you’ve read our blog before, you already know our stance on venture capital. We are entirely self-funded, fiercely independent, and proudly operating as a small, tight-knit worker-owned cooperative. We aren’t trying to build a billion-dollar unicorn, and we aren't chasing hyper-growth to please a board of external investors.

Because we don’t answer to VCs, we answer entirely to you (and to our own sanity of course). That means we approach product development with an eye toward sustainability. We want probes.dev to be here five, ten, and twenty years from now, running quietly and reliably in the background of your workflow.

To make that happen, we are intentionally growing this product slowly and with a focus on folks building things solo or on a small team.

Please Bear With Us

Because we are a very small team managing everything from the code to the server infrastructure, we have to be realistic: we are human, and things might occasionally hit a snag.

As we open the floodgates today and transition out of our early testing phase, we expect a few growing pains. If your dashboard loads a little slow, if a setting acts a bit funky, or if something breaks altogether, please be patient! We're on it, we're learning, and we're monitoring the monitor.

If you want a lightweight, no-nonsense way to keep tabs on your websites and services, head over to probes.dev and spin up your first probe for free. We’d love to hear what you think and please share probes.dev with your friends and followers!