Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A pager
Hello HN, I basically don't use notifications for anything. The noise is too much. Slack is too loud. Email is too slow. But sometimes you do need a note in your face. I found myself missing 1990s pagers. I wanted a digital equivalent - something that does one thing: beep until I ack it. So I built UDP-7777. Concept: - 0% Cloud: It listens on UDP Port 7777. No accounts, no central servers. You don't need Tailscale/ZeroTier/WG/etc, it's just easy for device sets. - CAPCODES: It maps your IP address (LAN or Tailscale) to a retro 10-digit "CAPCODE" that looks like a phone number…
A Pager is a local notification system that revives 1990s pager functionality for modern use. It listens on UDP port 7777 across local networks or Tailscale connections, requiring no cloud accounts or central servers.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN, I am building an open source platform to make on-call better and less stressful for engineers. We are building a tool that can silence alerts and help with debugging and root cause analysis. We also want to automate tedious parts of being on-call (running runbooks manually, answering questions on Slack, dealing with Pagerduty). Here is a quick video of how it works: https://youtu.be/m_K9Dq1kZDw I hated being on-call for a couple of reasons: * Alert volume: The number of alerts kept increasing over time. It was hard to maintain existing alerts. This would lead to a lot…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi. I heard HN likes e-paper gadgets so I wanted to share a little side project I’ve been working on with @sqfmi. We’re building Beepberry - a portable e-paper computer for hackers, designed for chatting on Beeper. My day job is running Beeper [0], but I will always have a soft spot for building hardware. I wanted to create a ‘weekend’ device that would let me stay in touch with friends and family, without the distractions of a full smartphone. I imagined a tiny, hackable e-paper screen with a physical keyboard, powered by a Raspberry Pi, that I could use to chat around my home…and pretty…
2023 · beepberry.sqfmi.com · its alternatives →
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Free forever website monitoring & status pages 🤩
2018 · freshworks.com · its alternatives →
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I built Site Spy after missing a visa appointment slot because a government page changed and I didn’t notice for two weeks. It watches webpages for changes and shows the result like a diff. The part I think HN might find interesting is that it can monitor a specific element on a page, not just the whole page, and it can expose changes as RSS feeds. So instead of tracking an entire noisy page, you can watch just a price, a stock status, a headline, or a specific content block. When it changes, you can inspect the diff, browse the snapshot history, or follow the updates in an RSS reader. It’s…
Mar 2026 · sitespy.app · its alternatives →
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Google PageSpeed monitoring without registration
2023 · performance90.com · its alternatives →
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Manage Pagerduty on-call schedules from within your internal chat channels. - stripe-contrib/pagerbot
2014 · stripe.com · its alternatives →
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Free auto bulk page speed checker 🚀
2020 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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Better statuspage, in 1-click, FREE forever 🔥
2019 · freshworks.com · its alternatives →
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Pagerbot▲98Chat-bot for controlling PagerDuty. made by Stripe.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Point any webhook at a private URL. Pascal reads the payload and writes the Alert, no parser, no field mapping. iPhone only.
Sep 2026 · pascalspager.com · its alternatives →
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On-Call Health▲116We built On-Call Health because our industry has gotten very good at keeping systems healthy, but does little for the engineers on call managing them. On-call can be rough: 97% of engineers experience stress during incidents, 87% after, and 56% experience sleep disruption even without getting paged. We integrate with devtools like Rootly, PagerDuty, Linear, Jira, and Slack (for self-reported data). The tool doesn't provide a diagnosis, but it surfaces signals that a team or individual might be struggling. It's free to use and open-source (we also have a hosted version with mock data if you…
Feb 2026 · oncallhealth.ai · its alternatives →
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Moniq.sh▲61Ultra-lightweight server monitor with alerts and dashbords
2025 · moniq.sh · its alternatives →
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Started as a timer to track my freelance coding hours and stay focused. It’s local-only, zero-login, minimalist. Not monetizing it (yet), just seeing if others find it helpful. Thoughts welcome.
2025 · iamlockedin.com · its alternatives →
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I built a retro-style beeper (pager) for Sentry
2025 · techsquidtv.com · its alternatives →
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Howdy HN! I find myself testing my ping from time to time, especially when my internet seems wonky while WFH. It feels like there should be an easier way test my ping than puling up a terminal or a complex web app - especially when I'm on my phone or any other device that doesn't have a terminal. I figured I should be the change I wish to see in the world and created this super light ping test. I also created a latency monitoring solution (https://github.com/cjjeakle/network-monitor), feel free to clone and try it out! I know there are a lot more mature monitoring…
2022 · ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com · its alternatives →
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