Hi HN, I built StatusDrop, a tool for tracking the status of outside services like Stripe, AWS, GitHub, and other vendors your product depends on.

I built it after running into the same problem a few times: customers would report that “the app is down,” but the real issue was a third-party provider having trouble. I wanted a simple way to show that dependency status in one place and share it publicly without setting up a full status system from scratch.

You create a stack, add services from a catalog of 550+ providers or plug in custom status URLs, and get a hosted status page plus a small embeddable widget for your site.

Under the hood, it watches public vendor status pages and supports custom health checks, alerts, and a REST API. It also supports custom domains via CNAME.

Would love to hear what you think or what’s missing.