Announcing beeps for developers and our $5.6M seed round led by a16z

We’re excited to release our free edition of beeps, the on-call platform for Next.js developers.  You can get started today in less than five minutes - try it out now here.

With beeps, everyday developers can:

• Know if it’s you, not them: developers increasingly rely upon services, not servers, to build modern applications.  With beeps, we’ll let you know if a third party API or service you rely upon is having issues so that you can know quickly if it’s your code, or theirs.

• Get straight to the facts: know what’s changed in your environment whether it was a recent deploy, recent code changes, or external service issues.  Instead of the inconsistent and untimely process of opening a tab in your browser for everything you need, we let you know in a matter of seconds.

• Modern, beautiful status pages: that help you easily keep your valued users informed of issues.

All this for free and built for small teams that want to get ahead in their reliability story as they build the next great company atop Next.js.

The world of on-call has largely gone unchanged for the past two decades while the rest of the software industry has exponentially improved.  We’re on a mission to drastically improve the lives of developers who are on-call. A mission that makes the ritualistic pain and suffering unrecognizable to site reliability engineers today.

We also couldn’t be more thrilled to announce our $5.6 million seed round led by Zane Lackey at Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Alana Goyal at Basecase, Rafael Corrales at Background Capital, Daniel Rummenik and Lenny Rachitsky of AirAngels in addition to Julia Metcalf, Theo Browne, Colin Sidoti, Bucky Moore, Morgan Mahlock, Neil Jagdish Patel, Sarah Richard and Mathias Christensen.  We love to build and couldn’t be more inspired by our crew of investor builders.

As someone who has spent the past 25 years in reliability, the prospect of building a better on-call platform is deeply personal.  I’ve probably been beeped and responded to more alerts in my life than phone calls from friends and family.  I’ve sat alone at 3am with the weight of a decacorn upon my shoulders.  I’ve sprinted with a KVM across a data center to get to a physical server so I could start investigating seconds faster.   I’ve missed out on countless dinners with family, hang outs with friends or simply was always the guy with his backpack wherever he went.  And even brought on-call into some of my biggest life moments.  We must make this better.

The thing is, I was exceptional at being on-call and it still wrecked me.  I was highly trained and had thousands of reps.  Modern developers are being thrown into the on-call fire and expected to be great with little training, without the “ops” background and with higher stakes.  We’re not building beeps for the site reliability engineers, the “devops” teams, or the platform engineers.

We’re building beeps for you, the modern developer.

Joey Parsons

Founder & CEO