Max Rozen
@rozenmd.com
Building Workers & D1 at Cloudflare. Aussie in France.
Building https://OnlineOrNot.com, a self-funded, sustainable company.
He/Him.
Building https://OnlineOrNot.com, a self-funded, sustainable company.
He/Him.
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Max Rozen
@rozenmd.com
· Apr 24
OnlineOrNot - Free Status Pages and Uptime Monitoring
OnlineOrNot monitors your websites and APIs, letting you know instantly if anything goes wrong.
onlineornot.com
Built a quick uptime checker with Next.js, and Node on AWS Lambda back in February 2021.
These days it provides uptime monitoring, API correctness and heartbeat checks, and hosts a status page for you and your team: https://onlineornot.com
These days it provides uptime monitoring, API correctness and heartbeat checks, and hosts a status page for you and your team: https://onlineornot.com
Reposted by Max Rozen
Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg.
Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...
Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...
October 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Those benchmarks from @t3.gg revealed some interesting issues in Workers. Happy to say it's all fixed now, save for some lingering next.js-specific stuff we're continuing to work on. Thanks for the reproducible test cases, @t3.gg.
Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...
Excessive details in blog post: blog.cloudflare.com/unpacking-cl...
i just asked claude to build an equalizer in c++ for my Tangara and it two shot it
(hit a bootloop that took some debugging)
my queer ipod now has MEGABASS 😌
(hit a bootloop that took some debugging)
my queer ipod now has MEGABASS 😌
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
i just asked claude to build an equalizer in c++ for my Tangara and it two shot it
(hit a bootloop that took some debugging)
my queer ipod now has MEGABASS 😌
(hit a bootloop that took some debugging)
my queer ipod now has MEGABASS 😌
Reposted by Max Rozen
3. your career is a pie-eating contest where the prize for winning is more pie
the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work
the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
3. your career is a pie-eating contest where the prize for winning is more pie
the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work
the things people see you do are the things they'll ask you to do. if you want to get asked to do certain types of work, make sure people see you doing that type of work
So this screen in @onlineornot.com has always been slower than I wanted - around 2.3s(!) to load 10 rows of data from the GraphQL endpoint.
It was the first screen I ever built (4+ yrs ago), and I leaned heavily into GraphQL resolvers because I assumed it'd be fast.
It was the first screen I ever built (4+ yrs ago), and I leaned heavily into GraphQL resolvers because I assumed it'd be fast.
June 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
So this screen in @onlineornot.com has always been slower than I wanted - around 2.3s(!) to load 10 rows of data from the GraphQL endpoint.
It was the first screen I ever built (4+ yrs ago), and I leaned heavily into GraphQL resolvers because I assumed it'd be fast.
It was the first screen I ever built (4+ yrs ago), and I leaned heavily into GraphQL resolvers because I assumed it'd be fast.
realised i was missing a pretty important empty state in @onlineornot.com today: when you search for something and there are no results
June 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
realised i was missing a pretty important empty state in @onlineornot.com today: when you search for something and there are no results
Reposted by Max Rozen
fyi founder friends — new scam to watch out for
A sneaky scam I've seen a few times now:
Someone writes into support to demand a refund for a duplicate charge.
"oh crap!"
But their email is nowhere in my system, nor is their name...
Someone writes into support to demand a refund for a duplicate charge.
"oh crap!"
But their email is nowhere in my system, nor is their name...
May 22, 2025 at 7:23 AM
fyi founder friends — new scam to watch out for
Goodbye TopBarNav, hello SidebarNav
May 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Goodbye TopBarNav, hello SidebarNav
May 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reposted by Max Rozen
"Bragging about your business using AI is like bragging about using spellcheck."
- @amandanat.bsky.social
- @amandanat.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
"Bragging about your business using AI is like bragging about using spellcheck."
- @amandanat.bsky.social
- @amandanat.bsky.social
Reposted by Max Rozen
Probably my favorite YouTube video of all time. 90 seconds of inspiration to last a lifetime youtu.be/E1oZhEIrer4?...
Nobody Tells This To Beginners
YouTube video by Saar
youtu.be
May 5, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Probably my favorite YouTube video of all time. 90 seconds of inspiration to last a lifetime youtu.be/E1oZhEIrer4?...
every week when you've convinced yourself you just need to build one more feature and it'll fix the plateau just one more feature bro it'll be so good bro
May 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
every week when you've convinced yourself you just need to build one more feature and it'll fix the plateau just one more feature bro it'll be so good bro
TIL there are SaaS vendors that raise their prices automatically year over year for existing customers
surely that increases churn?!
surely that increases churn?!
May 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
TIL there are SaaS vendors that raise their prices automatically year over year for existing customers
surely that increases churn?!
surely that increases churn?!
Reposted by Max Rozen
Quite an excellent piece. Max and I don't agree on everything (some of our lessons learned contradict each other), but I love having my thinking challenged, and I'm probably wrong on some of these!
I wrote an article about the lessons learned from running OnlineOrNot for the past four years:
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Max Rozen
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
maxrozen.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Quite an excellent piece. Max and I don't agree on everything (some of our lessons learned contradict each other), but I love having my thinking challenged, and I'm probably wrong on some of these!
Always fun to get emails like these from @onlineornot.com customers
April 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Always fun to get emails like these from @onlineornot.com customers
I wrote an article about the lessons learned from running OnlineOrNot for the past four years:
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Max Rozen
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
maxrozen.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I wrote an article about the lessons learned from running OnlineOrNot for the past four years:
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
maxrozen.com/on-four-year...
I wish all websites were as easy to monitor as StackOverflow
April 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wish all websites were as easy to monitor as StackOverflow
just one more ui fixup bro trust me bro it'll be so good when its done bro
April 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
just one more ui fixup bro trust me bro it'll be so good when its done bro
crazy how effective positioning is
"uptime monitoring for your software team"
- weak, tired
- been there, done that
"get alerts when your team vibe-codes your product offline"
- wired, locked-in
- been looking for this for weeks, sign me up fam
"uptime monitoring for your software team"
- weak, tired
- been there, done that
"get alerts when your team vibe-codes your product offline"
- wired, locked-in
- been looking for this for weeks, sign me up fam
March 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
crazy how effective positioning is
"uptime monitoring for your software team"
- weak, tired
- been there, done that
"get alerts when your team vibe-codes your product offline"
- wired, locked-in
- been looking for this for weeks, sign me up fam
"uptime monitoring for your software team"
- weak, tired
- been there, done that
"get alerts when your team vibe-codes your product offline"
- wired, locked-in
- been looking for this for weeks, sign me up fam
the children yearn for client-side rendered web apps
March 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
the children yearn for client-side rendered web apps
Reading this book on strategies for ADHD brain and realising that I already do like half of them
what a strange coincidence
what a strange coincidence
March 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Reading this book on strategies for ADHD brain and realising that I already do like half of them
what a strange coincidence
what a strange coincidence
fresh off a 28hr flight and have a whole day of work ahead of you?
try "two double espressos before 9am"!
you will certainly not regret having "two double espressos before 9am"!
try "two double espressos before 9am"!
you will certainly not regret having "two double espressos before 9am"!
March 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
fresh off a 28hr flight and have a whole day of work ahead of you?
try "two double espressos before 9am"!
you will certainly not regret having "two double espressos before 9am"!
try "two double espressos before 9am"!
you will certainly not regret having "two double espressos before 9am"!
Reposted by Max Rozen
"Bury them in examples" is the developer version of "kill them with kindness"
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Bury them in examples" is the developer version of "kill them with kindness"
think about your audience of course, but the *vast* majority of readers online aren't impressed by your use of words like utilize, leverage, operationalize, etc.
if anything, you're confusing them.
just say use.
if anything, you're confusing them.
just say use.
Random tip: literally anywhere you utilize "utilize" you can just use "use."
Literally. Anywhere.
Literally. Anywhere.
March 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
think about your audience of course, but the *vast* majority of readers online aren't impressed by your use of words like utilize, leverage, operationalize, etc.
if anything, you're confusing them.
just say use.
if anything, you're confusing them.
just say use.