Someone Built a DownDetector for DownDetector and It's Already Needed
Description
A mobile Reddit screenshot showing two posts creating perfect ironic juxtaposition. The top post from r/webdev (16h ago, 684 upvotes, 37 comments) reads 'I built a DownDetector for DownDetector' and shows a status page titled 'Is DownDetector down?' with a green 'OK' banner stating 'DownDetector responded normally from all regions.' A table shows checks by region: London UK (Up, HTTP 200, 427ms), Frankfurt DE (Up, HTTP 200, 507ms), New York US (Up, HTTP 200, 767ms). Last checked 19 Nov 2025. Directly below, a post from r/outages (1d ago) reads 'Downdetector is down?' showing a 'CONNECTION ERROR' message. The site disclaims it is not affiliated with DownDetector and was created by timeguessr.com. The dark-mode Reddit mobile interface frames the comedy perfectly
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Apparently r/webdev does -- and ships faster than DownDetector's own SRE team
We've achieved 'monitoring inception'. The only thing left is to build a status page for the status page's status page, hosted on a Raspberry Pi in a bunker, powered by a potato