Last April I left my previous company, Mission Research, to pursue something new. Since leaving I have been doing contract work, primarily for one company. At the same time I have been developing a new product which I’m now getting ready to launch. That product is called Loggr. 

Here’s the elevator pitch:

Loggr is a hosted service that allows you to quickly and easily collect events from your application, perform analysis using modern, web-based tools, and then share those events and notifications with your team. Setup is easy and there is no maintenance.

This service is primarily targeted towards application developers. After developing a product at my last company that I never, personally, actually used (since it was for non-profit organizations), this is a welcome change. Loggr was designed and built based on my own needs. I use it every day. I am responsible for several different websites, and keeping tabs on them is not easy, especially considering that they are active 24/7. For most of the websites, I need to know when they are having problems. This means monitoring errors. Loggr let’s me see them on my phone, for all my websites, and notifies me of the critical ones. Besides error monitoring, it can be setup to track any kind of activity in these websites like sales, new customers, feature use, etc.

A few weeks ago we started a private beta. Depending on the activity and feedback from that, I hope to have it open to the public by this summer. We’ll see.