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A hobbit software is a chill software made by a small company that stays out of the rat-race between giants.

It is usually something that does its job well, is well maintained, and doesn't ambition to revolutionize an industry or to achieve unlimited growth.

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Peteris Caune / Running One-man SaaS, 9 Years In:

I started Healthchecks in 2015 because I thought the existing services (Dead Man’s Snitch and Cronitor) were overpriced. I started with “I think this can be done better and cheaper”, and I’m sticking with it.

Feature-wise, I am happy with the current scope and feature set of Healthchecks. I am not planning to expand the scope and add e.g. active uptime monitoring, hosted status pages, or APM features.

Dave Anderson on mastodon:

Now thinking about creating a movement to promote "hobbit software". Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.

Oh, the Electron empire is going to war with the Reacts? Sounds ghastly, sorry to hear that. Me and the lads are off to the pub to run some cronjobs, wanna come along?

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