Blog

This is PingPing. We build a professional, reliable and scalable uptime monitoring service. We write here about what we have learned building our monitoring solution. Both technical and business.

February 6, 2025

Change of Ownership

We are pleased to announce that PingPing has been acquired by Newmatter. After building a great uptime monitoring service, Stefan Bauer and Bobby Bouwmann are passing on the torch. Newmatter has a background in making and running services for developers and companies.

October 25, 2020

Why We Dropped Our SaaS Free Plan

We ran a free plan for a few months, then replaced it with a 14-day trial. Here is what we learned about conversion, abuse signals, and why "free" can quietly cost you more than it earns - written for other SaaS founders weighing the same trade-off.