A daily check on your app · ongoing support
A Daily Check on Your App
Will Pickeral, William Belle LLC · support@williambelle.co
Your app is live. It works today. The question this service answers is whether you will find out before your customers do when it stops.
Most owners of a live app learn it is down from a customer, learn a security setting lapsed from an insurer, and cannot prove to anyone that either was ever being watched. This is the cheapest way to fix all three.
$49 a month for one app. The first two months are free.
What Happens Every Day
Once a day, from outside your app, I check:
- That it is up and answering. Not that the server is on — that the app itself responds the way a customer would find it.
- That the security settings in front of it are still in place. These are the settings that stop a browser being tricked into doing something on your behalf, and they can lapse quietly when an app is redeployed.
Nothing is installed in your app for this, and nothing about it slows your app down. There is an optional agent that reports what your app is actually running, if you want the deeper version, and it is read-only either way.
What Arrives Every Month
A written report, in plain language, that tells you:
- What was checked, and what it found
- Anything worth doing, why it matters, and what it would cost to fix
- Nothing, when there was nothing — see below
Keep the reports. They are your evidence that the checks ran. When a customer sends you a security questionnaire, when an insurer asks what monitoring you have in place, or when a regulator asks how you know your app is sound, this is the document that answers them. Reconstructing that after the fact is not possible; the whole value is that it was written down each month as it happened.
Every report stays available to you, so losing the email loses nothing.
A quiet month is the service working
Most months will find nothing. That is the point, and it is worth saying plainly because a service that only feels valuable when something is wrong is a service people cancel in a good year.
The report still arrives, it still says the checks ran, and it is still the evidence you keep. You are not paying for problems to be found. You are paying to know, and to be able to prove it.
What This Is Not
Nothing is fixed under this agreement. If I find something, I tell you what it is, what it means for you, and what it would cost. You decide whether it is worth doing. Nothing is done, and nothing is charged, until you say so.
That is deliberate. A service that promised repairs at this price would either have to say no when the repair was real, or stop existing. Keeping the watching separate from the fixing is what lets the watching stay cheap enough to be worth having on every app you own.
If you want the version where the fixing is included, that is Keep your app running — an agreed number of hours each month for hands-on work, with the daily check included at no extra charge. It is quoted per app, because the hours are.
What It Costs
| Apps covered | A month |
|---|---|
| 1 app | $49 |
| up to 3 apps | $89 |
| up to 6 apps | $149 |
More than six apps is quoted rather than priced from this list.
The first two months are free, from the day the first app is added. You will get at least one full monthly report before anything is charged, so you can see exactly what you are buying before you buy it.
You can stop at the end of any month. There is no term and no notice period.
What I Need From You
One thing: your written confirmation that you own the app and that you authorize me to check it.
This is not a formality. Checking an application without its owner's permission is the line between security work and something else entirely, and I do not cross it for anyone. Nothing runs against your app until that confirmation is on record, and it is recorded with the date and who gave it.
Everything else I need is public — the address your customers already use.
Getting Started
Reply to the email that brought you here, or get in touch and say which app you want watched. I will confirm the address, record your authorization, and the first check runs that night.