About NetCheq

1. The problem

If you're a small business owner, you probably run more web properties than you'd like to count. The company site, the blog, a couple of customer landing pages, the wiki, the staging server, the status page, maybe a half-finished side project that a real customer somehow uses. Pingdom-class hosted monitors will watch all of them for you — they'll also charge you a monthly fee per check and require that your target list lives in their account. Fine for a NOC. Overkill for the case where you mostly just want to know, at a glance, whether anything's on fire.

2. What NetCheq does

Add the URLs you care about, on the device you already carry. NetCheq checks them from your device on a schedule you control and shows the result as a grid of coloured dots. All green: nothing's broken. One coral dot: that's the one to look at. The same view runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Apple Watch, and Wear OS, so the answer is two seconds away on whichever device is in your hand.

The defining feature is what NetCheq doesn't do. If your own internet is down, NetCheq doesn't claim your sites are; it stays quiet. If you're offline or away, you don't get notified — because a notification you can't act on is just noise.

3. Why local-first

• No subscription. Free for up to three targets; a one-time unlock makes it unlimited. Nothing recurring on your card.
• Your target list lives on your device. Not in our database, not in our backups, not in our analytics. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly opt into the hosted tier.
• Reachability is read from the OS, not probed against a beacon. The "do we have internet" check is a question your operating system can already answer — we ask it, instead of pinging someone.
• Works without us. If netcheq.com goes away tomorrow, your installed app keeps running. Local-first is a guarantee, not a marketing position.

4. The hosted tier (when it ships)

Some customers will outgrow on-device monitoring — they want alerts at 3 a.m. while their phone is silenced, or notifications when their devices are simply off, or a public status page their own customers can check. We're working on an opt-in hosted tier that runs the same checks from netcheq.com infrastructure, alerts via email and SMS, and syncs your target list across devices. It will be additive, not a replacement — the local app stays free of cloud dependency forever.

We'd rather have those customers stay in the family than send them to Pingdom.

5. Who builds it

NetCheq is one of a portfolio of small product flagpoles built by Defensible Logic, Inc., a software practice run out of Wrocław, Poland. We pick problems that fit cleanly into a small product, ship them across as many platforms as make sense, and run the infrastructure on bare metal we own. Sibling projects at the moment include:

• scsipub.com — public iSCSI-as-a-service, a block-device CDN.
• diceplots.com — exact-rational dice probability for tabletop RPGs.
• jseeq.com — structured-search frontend over a niche corpus.

6. Contact

Product questions or feedback: hello@netcheq.com. Support: /support. Privacy: /privacy.