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I built OutageDeck because I got tired of opening a dozen status pages whenever something broke, trying to work out whether the problem was mine or somebody else's.
OutageDeck reads the official machine-readable status feeds cloud and SaaS vendors publish about themselves. It normalizes current state, affected services, incident updates, and source timestamps into one stack view.
The boundary matters. A vendor feed is not independent truth and can acknowledge an incident late. OutageDeck is an index and a second signal, not a replacement for direct provider checks or synthetic probes from your own regions. Every record links back to the official source. OutageDeck's own health endpoint is also checked from a separate GitHub-hosted workflow, with public run history at https://github.com/outagedeck/status-check/actions/workflows/outagedeck-health.yml.
You can check a stack without an account. Free accounts add email alerts for five providers. Paid plans start at $19 a month and add Slack, Teams, Discord, webhooks, unlimited providers, and private Statuspage or Instatus feeds.
Incident history stays available after the vendor removes its banner. Developers can use the keyless JSON API, OpenAPI spec, RSS feeds, README badges, CLI, MCP server, GitHub Action, and Open WebUI tool.
Built and run by Kerolos Atallah in Cairo. Not affiliated with any provider it tracks.
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I got tired of opening a dozen vendor status pages during every incident, just to work out whether the problem was mine or somebody else's. So I built the thing I wanted.
It launched in July 2026 as one live board over the official status feeds of cloud and SaaS vendors teams depend on. The catalog changes as official sources are added or removed.
The rule from day one: official machine-readable sources only. No crowd reports, no scraping. If a status can't be traced back to the vendor's own feed, it doesn't get published.
OutageDeck's answer:
Anyone whose incident channel regularly starts with "is AWS down, or is it just us?":
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Choose it when your problem is third-party vendor status, not when you need synthetic monitoring of your own application.
OutageDeck's answer:
OutageDeck only reports what vendors officially publish. Every status comes from the provider's own machine-readable feed, never crowd reports and never scraping. Then it holds vendors to what they said:
It's simple and easy to set it up. An amazing tool if you are managing multiple projects with email from different domains.
Based on our record, ImprovMX seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 57 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Check out ImprovMX [1]. Main feature is forwarding but they have an SMTP option for $9/mo (6K emails). [1] https://improvmx.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Https://improvmx.com/ how about improvmx , it gives redirection for free , I have also discovered it right now in this thread though I think I had heard about it (I am not sure , I know of some email software where you pay one time and then you can self host or they host I am not sure). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
During my day to day use, I missed having a personalized email service with my domain, for example info[at]joodi.me I looked on the Vercel dashboard and saw that they didn’t offer this type of service, so I started searching for third-party services and found ImprovMX . - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
Great list! Another email option I’d recommend is https://improvmx.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
If you need simple email forwarding for your domain, you can use ImprovMX. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago
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