Show HN: Tuip – CLI / TUI for checking SaaS vendors' statuses
Tuip is a command-line tool and terminal user interface (TUI) that lets users create dashboards to monitor the status of their SaaS vendors. It supports both interactive TUI dashboards and quick CLI checks, including for use by automated agents.
Background
- **Tuip** (Terminal User Interface Project) is a new open-source tool that lets you monitor the operational status of SaaS vendors directly from your command line, offering both an interactive terminal dashboard and a scriptable CLI mode.
- It fills a workflow gap: developers often check vendor status pages (e.g., status.github.com) in a browser. Tuip brings this into the terminal, where many engineers already spend most of their time.
- Configured via a YAML file listing the services you depend on; it queries their public status APIs and displays results in a clean terminal UI.
- Competes with tools like cstate and Upptime, but is designed for terminal-first workflows and CI/CD integration.
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