StatusDrop

What Is StatusDrop? Status Pages and Widgets for SaaS Founders

·4 min read·StatusDrop

The Problem Every SaaS Founder Knows

You wake up to a flood of support tickets. "Your checkout is broken." "I can't log in." "The app is down."

Except it isn't. Stripe is having an outage. Or AWS is degraded. Or Clerk's auth service is slow. Your app is fine. Your dependencies aren't.

Your users don't know that. They blame you.

What StatusDrop Does

StatusDrop is a status page and embeddable widget that shows your users the real-time health of the third-party services your SaaS depends on.

In 30 seconds, you get:

  • A hosted status page on your own domain (e.g. status.yourapp.com)
  • An embeddable widget you add with a single <script> tag
  • 550+ pre-integrated services (Stripe, AWS, GitHub, Cloudflare, Vercel, and more)
  • Real-time monitoring with checks every 1-5 minutes

When Stripe goes down, your users see it on your site before they open a ticket.

Who Is StatusDrop For?

StatusDrop is built for indie SaaS founders and small teams who:

  • Don't want to build and maintain their own status infrastructure
  • Want to reduce "is it us or them?" support tickets
  • Need something that works in under a minute, not a week
  • Want a professional status page without enterprise pricing

We're not an internal DevOps dashboard like StatusGator ($37+/month). We're not Atlassian Statuspage ($29+/month) designed for companies publishing their own uptime. We're a lightweight, embeddable solution at $9.99/month with a 14-day free trial.

How It Works

1. Create a Stack

Start your 14-day free trial at statusdrop.dev and create your first stack. A stack is a collection of services you want to monitor. Name it after your product.

2. Add Services

Search our catalog of 550+ services across 13 categories: payments, cloud, CDN, email, devtools, analytics, auth, database, messaging, monitoring, AI, storage, and more. Click to add. You can also add custom status page URLs and health check endpoints.

3. Embed or Share

Copy one line of code:

<script src="https://statusdrop.dev/widget.js" data-stack="YOUR_STACK_ID"></script>

The widget appears on your site showing real-time service status. Hover for details, click to open your status page. Done.

What's Included ($9.99/mo)

StatusDrop is one simple plan. Everything is included:

  • Unlimited stacks with unlimited services
  • Hosted status page with the visual builder and full customization
  • Custom domain (CNAME) with SSL. Cloudflare users get one-click DNS setup via Domain Connect
  • Widget with light, dark, and auto themes, plus all templates and presets
  • 1-minute check intervals and 90-day status history
  • White-label mode (rename services, hide favicons and external links, remove "Powered by" badge)
  • Health checks for your own endpoints
  • Slack, Discord, Telegram, and email alerts
  • REST API with full CRUD access, plus public API and RSS feed
  • Catalog publishing (let others monitor your service)

Pricing is $9.99/month or $49.99/year ($4.17/month). Every account starts with a 14-day free trial: we collect a card at signup, but you won't be charged for 14 days and can cancel anytime. Early adopter pricing is locked forever.

Why We Built This

We're SaaS builders ourselves. We got tired of explaining to users that "Stripe is having issues, not us" with no way to prove it. We looked at existing solutions and found enterprise dashboards that cost $37-72/month or Atlassian Statuspage that's designed for a different use case entirely.

So we built what we wanted: a drop-in status widget and status page that takes 30 seconds to set up and comes with a 14-day free trial.

Get Started

Start your 14-day free trial at statusdrop.dev and have your status page live in under a minute. Cancel anytime, no charge for 14 days.