I manage servers for indie hackers so they can stop thinking about infrastructure
Hey IH š
I'm Matt. At my full time job I'm a software engineer building real-time, fault-tolerant messaging systems for the enterprise where downtime isn't an option.
I started offering what I do professionally, but for indie products, at indie-friendly pricing.
What I handle:
- Deployments & CI/CD
- Uptime monitoring & alerting
- Webhook reliability
- Backups, SSL, security patches
- On-call incident response
If your product is making money and you'd rather take a vacation than SSH into a server on a Saturday, that's exactly who I built this for.
More details at https://masoftware.net. You can also email me at matt@masoftware.net.
Happy to answer any questions here too. Thanks guys!
The webhook reliability point is underappreciated. For any Stripe-based product especially, missed or unprocessed webhooks are a silent killer ā payment failures that never get picked up, subscription updates that don't sync, duplicate events that cause double-charges. The 'fault-tolerant messaging systems for the enterprise' background is exactly the right expertise for this.
The 'product is making money, would rather not SSH on Saturday' framing is correct positioning. That's the moment founders actually feel this pain ā not when they're in build mode, but when something breaks and there's no one else to call.
One question: do you have a way to handle on-call escalations for critical payment processing events specifically? Stripe webhooks in particular benefit from immediate attention when they start failing (vs. next-morning discovery).