Silent 500s
Deploy was green. Users were not. You find out from a refund email.
Observability for vibe coded apps
Know when your side project breaks before your users do
Errors, uptime, and calm alerts for solo founders. Not for Fortune 500 SREs. Install in minutes when we launch.
Ship at 1am. Sleep past 2. focale watches prod while you build.
Side projects fail quietly
You shipped. The dashboard looked fine. Users were not fine.
Enterprise tax
Datadog is the wrong default for a weekend app. Too many knobs. Wrong price.
Later never comes
You will add monitoring after launch. That is how launches get messy. focale is the quiet pulse you add once, then forget until it pings.
Catch. Notify. Explain.
Three jobs. No APM course required.
Catch
Errors, 5xx spikes, and downtime without a second full time job.
Notify
Email and Discord with defaults that stay quiet. Alerts that matter.
Explain
Enough stack and request context to fix it. Not a career in observability.
How it will work
When we launch: paste SDK, get first alert, sleep better.
Paste one line
Drop a tiny JS/TS SDK into your Next.js or Node app. No agent fleet.
npm i @focale/sdk
Get first alert
Trigger a test error. See Discord or email fire in minutes, not after a setup weekend.
Ship with a pulse
Know when prod is broken. Fix it. Go back to building the product.
Who it is for, and not
Honesty builds trust. We are not everything to everyone.
For You if…
- Solo founder or indie hacker shipping a public app or API
- Tiny team (2 to 5) with no dedicated ops person
- Modern JS/TS on Vercel, Railway, Fly, or Cloudflare
- You want confidence, not a monitoring course
Not You if…
- Regulated enterprise with SRE orgs
- You already run full Prometheus/Grafana or Datadog as standard
- You need multi region distributed tracing on day one
- You want a log lake and a PhD in query languages
Pricing sketch
Coming soon. Priced for side projects, not enterprise seats.
Hobby
Free
- 1 project
- Low event cap
- Email alerts
Acquisition and habit
Indie
$12 /mo
- 3 projects
- Higher events
- Discord / Slack
Coming soon
Studio
$29 /mo
- 10 projects
- 3 team seats
- Webhooks
Coming soon
FAQ
Straight answers while we are still validating.
Is this just Sentry?
Sentry is excellent at errors. focale packages errors + uptime + calm alerts for vibe coded side projects: simpler defaults, clearer pricing, less enterprise ceremony.
When do you launch?
We are validating demand first. Join the waitlist and we will ping you for early access. No spam, launch updates only.
What stacks will you support?
Day one target: JS/TS, Next.js, Node, common hosts (Vercel, Railway, Fly, Cloudflare). More languages only if design partners pull us there.
What about my data?
We will not sell your data. Production product will keep error payloads minimal and under your control. Privacy details ship with the product, not before.
Can I be a design partner?
Yes, if you are shipping now and would install something rough. Use the design partner link with name, project URL, stack, and biggest monitoring pain.
Is there a free plan?
Hobby is planned free for one project so you can build the habit. Paid tiers stay founder priced, not enterprise seat priced.
Ship at 1am. Sleep past 2.
Dead simple observability for vibe coded apps. Get notified when we open early access.