The person behind stillworks.watch
I used to click through the same steps after every deploy.
I’m Tomáš Pilař, a backend developer. I built stillworks.watch to take that familiar routine off my hands. And yours.
A familiar routine
The deploy was done. I wasn’t.
After every deploy to production, I would open the application and click through a path I knew by heart. The same steps, in the same order, to make sure the things people relied on still worked.
It was a small piece of work, but it came back with every deploy. I wanted to show that path once and have it checked again without having to remember to do it myself.
That’s where stillworks.watch started. Record a customer path, then let it run again daily and after detected deploys, within your plan’s daily allowance. If that check breaks twice in a row, stillworks.watch sends you the evidence.
The experience behind it
Built with production in mind.
- TodayCTO at Conviu: technology direction, performance and reliability
- BeforeSenior backend developer on Lékárna.cz and MojaLekaren.sk
- Since 15Programming, then IT studies at school and university
I’ve been programming since I was fifteen. That curiosity took me through IT studies at school and university, and into a career building the systems behind applications. I’ve also taught public and company workshops and spoken at developer conferences. Building software and sharing what I learn have been part of the same work for me.
I’m building stillworks.watch for other developers who know that shipping something is only part of looking after it.
Build log
Speed around deploys
Medians before and after a detected deploy, side by side, with no verdict.
Public snapshots
Show someone what I found on their site, on a page that stays up for two weeks.
Visitor errors snippet
One optional line of code, no cookies, errors your visitors actually hit.
Watch recorder
Show me the steps once in your browser and I replay them.
Healed checks
When a button moves, I find it again and tell you instead of calling it broken.
From my workflow to yours
One less routine to remember.
Show stillworks.watch the steps you keep clicking through.