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Building a status page aggregator reveals messy provider data
A developer built OutageDeck, aggregating status from 96 cloud and SaaS providers, and found no standard format. Timestamps from providers often lag by days, making uptime calculations unreliable. The project uses a simple Next.js and Postgres backend costing $55/month, avoiding complex infrastructure.
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The piece underscores a persistent industry blind spot: official status pages are designed for provider convenience, not user trust, and aggregators like OutageDeck expose the gap between claimed and actual reliability.
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