Todd Gardner

Hiya Product Hunters! Thanks for checking us out ― today we're excited to release version 3 of Request Metrics Core Web Vital monitoring and website performance! 🦥 🚀 The performance and Core Web Vitals of your website are super important. Not only because of user experience, but also because they influence your SEO and pagerank in search. Search traffic is life for bloggers, media sites,...

We're going to launch Request Metrics with a free plan in January, and we'll need to keep the running costs low on those plans and try to convert some percentage. It's a balance of giving enough features that it's always valuable, but lock away enough that folks *WANT* to upgrade. We'll probably thrash a bit to get that balance right.

We developed this "in the open", with coding sessions and planning meetings recorded and broadcast on YouTube. You can watch our story on YouTube or at https://requestmetrics.com/building/

We’ve heard lots of stories from TrackJS Users about remote browser bugs and how they had been slain. Many had used TrackJS monitoring as a way of gather log and debug data from these remote devices, but the feedback cycle was slow. Asking a new question required a new deploy and reloading. Real-time debugging of individual remote browsers isn’t what we imagined TrackJS to be used for, but...

Thanks for everyone's support! Webapps are hard; we're trying to make the web a little bit better :)