I Built a Self-Hosted Competitor Price Monitor Because SaaS Pricing Is Out of Co

<p>I open-sourced MarketEye today.</p> <p>For anyone who missed the first post: MarketEye is a self-hosted competitor price monitor I built because I didn't want to pay $99/month

<p>Hey folks! 👋<br /> As a solo developer building for the global market, balancing performance, shipping speed, and server costs is always a tricky triangle. Recently, I launched

<h2> I got hit by a 4× price hike – so I built my own uptime monitor </h2> <p>In July 2025, my monitoring bill went from <strong>$8 → $34/month</strong>.</p> <p>Same service. Same

<p>Every Monday I'd sit down for our team sync and draw a blank.</p> <p>What did I actually work on last week? How many hours did I put in? Was I in flow or just firefighting?</p>

<p>Eight months ago I was frustrated. I do strength training, <br /> running, and BJJ — and I needed three different apps to <br /> track everything. Strava for runs, Strong for

<p>A few months ago I was trying to sell a second-hand PlayStation. I spent 45 minutes searching eBay, scrolling Facebook Marketplace, trying to figure out if €280 was a fair

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>We've all been there. You get a Slack ping at 2am: "Is the site down?" You check UptimeRobot. It says: <strong>DOWN - HTTP 500</strong>. Great. But <em>what</em> was HTTP 500?