The Dossier - Use Cases
OPERATION UPTIME: DevOps Webapp Health Monitoring
Persona: Site Reliability Engineer
Challenge: A SaaS company needs 24/7 monitoring of critical endpoints across multiple
regions. Traditional monitoring tools can be expensive and complex to configure.
Solution: Deploy multiple contracts targeting health check endpoints every 5 minutes.
Each contract validates HTTP 200 responses and extracts response time metrics. Slack webhooks notify
your #ops-alerts channel instantly when hits fail.
Results: Achieve 99.9% uptime visibility, reduce mean time to detection to 5min, get
instant Slack alerts on failures.
OPERATION INTEL: Daily Reddit News Digest
Persona: Content Curator / Hobbyist
Challenge: A newsletter creator wants to automatically collect top posts from specific
subreddits each morning without building complex scraping infrastructure.
Solution: Create contracts hitting Reddit's JSON endpoints for target subreddits daily
at 6 AM. Regex extraction pulls post titles and scores for your digest.
Results: Automate daily content curation, receive email reports with extracted
headlines, zero infrastructure to maintain.
OPERATION ARCHIVE: Automated Backups & Archiving
Persona: Backend Developer
Challenge: A developer needs to trigger nightly backups on a self-hosted service and
archive logs to cold storage, but doesn't want to manage cron servers.
Solution: Set up contracts to hit internal backup API endpoints and archive triggers.
Bearer token authentication keeps operations secure.
Results: Reliable nightly backups without cron management, full audit trail of backup
executions, catch backup issues immediately.
OPERATION PULSE: Serverless Keep-Alive
Persona: Indie Developer
Challenge: Free-tier serverless functions spin down after inactivity, causing cold
start delays for users.
Solution: Deploy lightweight GET contracts hitting function endpoints every 5 minutes
to prevent cold starts without writing custom warmup code.
Results: Eliminate cold start latency, works across Vercel, Railway, Render, costs
nothing vs. always-on instances.
OPERATION TICKER: Crypto Price Alerts
Persona: Day Trader / Investor
Challenge: A crypto investor wants real-time alerts when Bitcoin crosses key price
thresholds without expensive trading bots.
Solution: Set up contracts hitting the CoinGecko API every 5 minutes. Regex extraction
pulls the current BTC price, Slack notifications fire when thresholds are breached.
Results: Instant Slack alerts on price movements, avoid trading bot subscription fees,
log historical price data.
OPERATION SENTINEL: Smart Home Device Monitoring
Persona: Home Automation Enthusiast
Challenge: A smart home setup with multiple IoT devices needs regular health checks to
catch offline devices before they cause problems.
Solution: Create contracts pinging each device's API endpoint hourly. Extraction pulls
battery levels and connection status, with Slack alerts for any device going offline.
Results: Detect device failures proactively, monitor battery levels, build full device
uptime history.