PropGuard

AI monitors your real estate API integrations 24/7 with auto-failover

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The Opportunity

Problem

Solo proptech founders face nightmare integrations with fragmented real estate APIs that constantly break and kill development momentum.

Solution

PropGuard watches your proptech app's RE API calls, detects failures, and switches to backups instantly. It alerts via Slack/Email and logs everything for debugging. Solo founders stay momentum with zero-downtime integrations.

Target Audience

Solo founders building proptech startups integrating real estate data

Differentiator

AI-powered anomaly detection predicts breaks before they happen, exclusive to RE APIs.

Brand Voice

supportive

Features

Real-Time Monitoring

must-have18h

Track latency, errors across your endpoints.

Auto-Failover

must-have22h

Switch providers on failure.

Alerting

must-have12h

Slack, email, Discord notifications.

Error Logs

must-have15h

Searchable logs with replays.

Health Dashboard

must-have20h

Uptime graphs, provider scores.

API Wrapper

must-have25h

Drop-in JS/Python wrapper for your calls.

Predictive Alerts

nice-to-have25h

AI warns of impending issues.

Custom Rules

nice-to-have15h

Define your own failure conditions.

Team Access

future20h

Multi-user dashboards.

Total Build Time: 172 hours

Database Schema

users

ColumnTypeNullable
iduuidNo
emailtextNo
created_attimestampNo

monitors

ColumnTypeNullable
iduuidNo
user_iduuidNo
endpoint_urltextNo
providertextYes
backup_providerstext[]Yes

Relationships:

  • user_id -> users.id

incidents

ColumnTypeNullable
iduuidNo
monitor_iduuidNo
typetextNo
resolvedboolNo
timestamptimestampNo

Relationships:

  • monitor_id -> monitors.id

alert_configs

ColumnTypeNullable
iduuidNo
user_iduuidNo
channeltextNo

Relationships:

  • user_id -> users.id

API Endpoints

POST
/api/monitors

Create monitor

🔒 Auth Required
GET
/api/incidents

List recent incidents

🔒 Auth Required
GET
/api/status

Current health

🔒 Auth Required

Tech Stack

Frontend
Next.js 14 + Tailwind + Recharts
Backend
Supabase + Node.js cron jobs
Database
Supabase Postgres
Auth
Supabase Auth
Payments
Stripe
Hosting
Vercel
Additional Tools
Puppeteer for API testingOpenAI for anomaly detection

Build Timeline

Week 1: Auth and monitoring setup

35h
  • Dashboard
  • Add monitor flow

Week 2: Core detection

40h
  • Polling engine
  • Incident logging

Week 3: Failover and alerts

40h
  • SDK wrapper
  • Alert integrations

Week 4: Polish

35h
  • Graphs
  • Payments
  • Tests

Week 5: Beta launch

20h
  • Docs
  • Onboarding video

Week 6: AI features

20h
  • Predictive alerts MVP
Total Timeline: 6 weeks • 210 hours

Pricing Tiers

Free

$0/mo

No failover

  • 5 monitors
  • Basic alerts
  • 30d logs

Pro

$25/mo
  • 50 monitors
  • Failover
  • 1y logs
  • AI alerts

Enterprise

$99/mo
  • Unlimited
  • Custom SLAs
  • On-prem option

Revenue Projections

MonthUsersConversionMRRARR
Month 1803%$60$720
Month 66006%$900$10,800

Unit Economics

$35
CAC
$500
LTV
4%
Churn
90%
Margin
LTV:CAC Ratio: 14.3xExcellent!

Landing Page Copy

Never Let a Broken API Kill Your Proptech Momentum

PropGuard auto-fixes integrations so you focus on building.

Feature Highlights

24/7 vigilance
Instant failover
Smart alerts
Easy SDK install
RE-specific rules

Social Proof (Placeholders)

"'Caught 5 outages already' - Founder"
"'Zero downtime bliss' - Dev"
"'Essential for solos' - Beta User"

First Three Customers

Target Twitter proptech founders complaining about API breaks; offer free Pro for 1 month to first 50 signups via r/SaaS; partner with proptech accelerators for intros.

Launch Channels

Product Huntr/SaaSTwitter #proptechIndie HackersDev.to

SEO Keywords

real estate api monitoringproptech api failovermls api downtimezillow api alertsintegration monitoring tool

Competitive Analysis

$10/host
Strength

Reliable uptime

Weakness

Generic, no API-specific

Our Advantage

RE tailored + auto-fix

Sentry

sentry.io
$26/mo
Strength

Error tracking

Weakness

No failover or RE focus

Our Advantage

Proactive + proptech only

🏰 Moat Strategy

Dataset of RE API failure patterns for AI; sticky via SDK integration.

⏰ Why Now?

Increasing API instability (e.g. Zillow changes); rise of solo AI proptech apps needing reliability.

Risks & Mitigation

technicalmedium severity

False positives in alerts

Mitigation

Tunable thresholds + ML tuning

marketlow severity

Founders use custom retries

Mitigation

Free tier demo value

Validation Roadmap

pre-build5 days

Twitter poll on API pains

Success: 100+ votes, 20% interest

launch30 days

PH launch

Success: 500 visits, 50 signups

Pivot Options

  • General API monitoring
  • DevOps tool for any vertical
  • Compliance logging

Quick Stats

Build Time
210h
Target MRR (6 mo)
$1,500
Market Size
$30.0M
Features
9
Database Tables
4
API Endpoints
3