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Silent Fail
Get an email when your automation stops running
Automation platforms alert you when a workflow errors. They say nothing when it stops running altogether. Silent Fail is a dead man's switch: your workflow pings a URL when it finishes, and if the ping stops arriving you get an email. One alert per outage.
I built this after the third time an automation stopped running and I found out from an angry customer rather than from any alert.
The distinction that matters: platforms alert on errors. A workflow that quietly stops firing throws nothing, so there is no error to catch, and it looks identical to a quiet week until someone downstream asks where their data is.
So the whole product is one HTTP endpoint and an inbox. You get a URL, your workflow requests it when it finishes, and if a request does not arrive within the schedule plus a grace period you get an email. When pings resume you get one all clear. No AI, no OAuth, no access to your workflow data, nothing to install.
The part I spent most of the time on is the part nobody sees. One outage produces exactly one email, enforced at the database with a conditional write so two concurrent checkers cannot both send. Daily schedules are evaluated in your timezone, and a wall clock landing in a spring forward gap resolves forward, because resolving backward would pull a deadline an hour early and cause exactly the false alarm this exists to prevent. Grace defaults to twice your interval, because a monitoring tool that cries wolf on day one gets muted and then it is worse than nothing.
healthchecks.io does the generic version of this well and is open source, so if you want to self host, genuinely use that. This is narrower: built around n8n, Make and Zapier, with setup guidance in each platform's own terms.
There is a free webhook tester at silentfailapp.com/webhook-tester if you just want to confirm your HTTP node fires at all. No signup, no account.
Free tier is 3 monitors. Happy to answer anything.
About Silent Fail on Product Hunt
“Get an email when your automation stops running”
Silent Fail was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #43 on the daily leaderboard. Automation platforms alert you when a workflow errors. They say nothing when it stops running altogether. Silent Fail is a dead man's switch: your workflow pings a URL when it finishes, and if the ping stops arriving you get an email. One alert per outage.
On the analytics side, Silent Fail competes within SaaS, Developer Tools and No-Code — topics that collectively have 569k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Silent Fail performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Silent Fail?
Silent Fail was hunted by Kiran Deosingh. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Kiran Deosingh