I am Kaushik, Co-Founder of Spike.sh We build Spike.sh to be a very simple incident alerting alternative to Pagerduty. I had put shown this community what we had built 2 years ago as well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24503585) It didn't get a lot of attention. eh! I started Spike.sh (https://spike.sh) because I always thought the potential of incident management is a lot lot more. There are numerous... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Me and the team at https://spike.sh are incident management nerds. Its rare to find people interested in this practice. I usually keep my ears to the ground finding Incident management nerds, its not easy though. Open to collaborate on content, practices, experiments, and in general of how different engineering and non-engineering teams across the world instill and follow incident management practices. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

I've looked at different tools so far and found they either targeted a different audience (xMatters), did not have enough features (spike.sh), were expensive (OpsGenie Standard subscription), or had to many features (Icinga2). Source: about 2 years ago

Is spike.sh similar to what pagerduty do ? Source: over 2 years ago

I'm currently trying out spike.sh and it's an excellent product for the money. Source: almost 3 years ago

I would say almost from day 1. Even at a lower price, it's an important step to validate an idea. When people need to put their credit card in and give you money, it's another level of commitment that I don't think you will have with a free plan. It is a level of commitment from the user but also from you. If you're getting paid, it's expected that, for example, if a service is down/not working, you need to fix... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago