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A beautiful, yet simple service monitor that lives in your notch. Service Down? Your Notch will tell you! 👀

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Pulse – a beautiful service monitor that lives in your notch

by jsattler·Mar 2, 2026·3 points·0 comments
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Notch-resident status monitor beats browser tabs, but macOS-only limits reach.

Strengths
  • •Notch integration is clever affordance: passive monitoring without context switching or notification spam
  • •Hot-reload config and state-transition-only alerts reduce alert fatigue for on-call workflows
  • •Privacy-first: no tracking, local-only storage, supports multiple status page providers
Weaknesses
  • •macOS 15+ only; excludes Linux and Windows users; niche platform lock-in
  • •Service status monitoring is well-solved (Statuspage native apps, Slack bots, browser bookmarks)
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

DevOps engineers, SREs, on-call responders using macOS

Similar To

Statuspage native apps · Slack status integrations · PagerDuty mobile app

Post Description

I built Pulse to have a quick way to see if a service is down without opening a browser or checking Slack, mails, etc. IMO, it looks beautiful and doesn't get in the way when you don't need it. It also supports macOS notification and you can easily mute individual services if needed.

No tracking, no analytics, no account. MIT licensed. Config is stored locally.

Happy to hear feedback!

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