I Built a Live Monitor for 77 Free Public APIs in a Weekend (Architecture + Bugs) (opens in new tab)

I got annoyed last month using the public-apis GitHub list. I clicked through ten "free weather APIs" and four were either dead, had silently moved to paid, or required a credit card their docs didn't mention. So I built a thing that watches them. FreeAPI.watch pings 77 free public APIs every hour, records uptime and response time, and rebuilds a static site daily with the results. The bill is $0/month. Stack is Astro + Cloudflare Workers + D1 + Pages, daily auto-rebuild via GitHub Actions. T...