In reply to MF Simchock.

The issue with a downorjustme.com type service is that it's not alive, has no way of reaching your users, no ability to leave status updates, and is pretty generalized. There are four main needs as of now:

- show status of a URL whether up or down
- ability for you to add custom items and assign a status
- ability do post updates
- ability to send messages to subscribed users

Unfortunately there isn't anything we've found that does those things, is open sourced, and has a beautiful design bringing it out of the 1990's status board designs.