About us
About Probecast.
Full-stack monitoring and revenue intelligence for indie founders.
Our Story
Probecast was born from a real frustration: modern products depend on dozens of external services — public APIs, hosting providers, databases, payment processors, email platforms — and when any of them breaks, you're the last to know.
We observed that indie founders had no single place to see the full picture: public API status, their own custom endpoints, infrastructure health and how all of that connected to business impact. Existing tools were either too narrow, too complex, or built for SRE teams — not for people who need to build and ship fast.
We created Probecast to solve this. The Main View gives you a daily AI briefing and instant health overview of every product. The Full Dashboard lets you drill into Custom APIs, Websites, Heartbeat monitors, Synthetic tests and 1,000+ public APIs in the catalog. The Revenue view tracks MRR, outage costs and subscription trends — connecting your technical stack directly to business impact.
Our Mission
"Be the second screen of every indie founder — the one that watches the stack so they can focus on building and shipping fast, without needing a DevOps team."
What We Do
Full Stack Visibility
Monitor 1,000+ public APIs from the catalog, your own custom endpoints, websites, heartbeat monitors and synthetic tests — all grouped by product, with a business health score and real-time events at a glance.
Instant Alerts
Real-time notifications via Email, Slack, Teams or custom webhooks the moment anything in your stack goes wrong.
Revenue & Business Impact
Connect Stripe, PayPal or LemonSqueezy and see MRR, subscription trends and churn in one consolidated view. Correlate incidents with outage costs and get weekly AI-powered insights on what's affecting your revenue growth.
Public Status Pages
Customizable status pages per product, with uptime badges and transparent incident history for your customers.
Why We Exist
You can't fix what you can't see
Modern products depend on dozens of external services. A single silent failure can cascade into lost revenue, broken user experiences and hours of debugging. Visibility is the first step.
Your second screen while you build
Indie founders need to stay focused on building and shipping — not babysitting infrastructure. Probecast is the second screen that watches your stack, groups monitors by product and surfaces what actually matters, so you can keep moving fast.
Setup in minutes, value in hours
Complex tools require too much time to set up and maintain. Probecast is designed for indie founders — connect your stack, configure alerts and start knowing. We take care of the rest.
Built for indie founders
Indie founders deserve the same intelligence layer that large companies use. Generous free plan, fair pricing and features that grow with you.
Our Values
Customer Focus
We build features based on real user feedback. Your success is our success.
Security and Privacy
Your data is encrypted, protected and never shared. Full compliance with GDPR, LGPD and CCPA.
Continuous Innovation
We're always improving, adding features and optimizing performance based on real needs.
Global Reach
Monitoring from 3 continents, multilingual support and global infrastructure to serve customers worldwide.
Transparency
Clear pricing, no hidden fees. Probecast's own status page publicly available.
Exceptional Support
We respond quickly, help proactively and treat each customer as if they were unique.
Our Technology
Probecast is built with modern and scalable technologies to ensure reliability, performance and security:
Infrastructure
- • Multi-region Railway (US, EU, Asia)
- • PostgreSQL with automatic backups
- • Redis for caching and queues (BullMQ)
- • Global CDN for low latency
Security
- • TLS 1.3 for all connections
- • AES-256 for data at rest
- • CSP nonces for scripts
- • Regular security audits
Monitoring
- • Custom check intervals — from 30s to 24h
- • Verification from 4 simultaneous regions
- • Intelligent false positive detection
- • Latency metrics per region
Performance
- • API response time < 100ms
- • Interactive and fast dashboard
- • Webhooks triggered in < 1s
- • Slack and webhook alerts in sub-second
Our Commitment to You
99.9% Uptime: We maintain our own infrastructure highly available so you can trust our alerts.
Responsive Support: We respond to questions within 1 business day (Indie/Startup) or 8 business hours (Scale, Lisbon time, Mon–Fri).
No Surprises: Clear pricing, no hidden fees, no traps. Cancel anytime, no penalties.
Continuous Improvement: We launch new features regularly based on real user feedback.
Your Data is Yours: You can export all your data at any time. Complete deletion within 48h when requested.
About the Founder
Filipe Alcantara
Founder, Probecast
Brazilian engineer turned entrepreneur with 20+ years navigating the tech world — from big telcos and global consulting firms to software houses and product startups.
That journey — constantly depending on third-party APIs and watching critical integrations silently fail — planted the seed for Probecast. The monitoring layer for indie founders who need to know when things break and what it costs them.
Computer Engineering (PUC-Rio) · MBA (Ibmec) · Columbia Business School
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Have questions? Feedback? Want to partner up? We'd love to hear from you!