Léo Baecker

Léo Baecker is a self-taught developer from Paris, France, and the founder of Hyperping, an uptime monitoring and status page platform. Hyperping started in 2017 with no venture capital or outside funding and still describes itself as a bootstrapped, profitable French company.

His start was unusually hard. In interviews and write-ups he has described leaving home at 16 with no money and no formal education, spending around a year and a half broke before settling in Paris, and teaching himself to code until he landed a job as a junior front-end engineer. He built Hyperping on the side while working full-time, after several earlier attempts that went nowhere, and gave himself a strict three-month MVP deadline. The product launched on Product Hunt in January 2018, around his 23rd birthday, and finished #3 of the day; Hyperping 2.0 then took #1 Product of the Day in November 2018.

Growth was slow at first: it took about nine months to reach $500 MRR. Léo built in public on WIP and X, emailed every new signup personally and ran Hyperping as an open startup with public revenue. He reported about $11K MRR from roughly 232 customers in September 2023, and later case studies cite around $15K MRR.

Hyperping has since grown from simple uptime checks into a reliability suite: HTTP, keyword, cron, SSL and port monitoring, Playwright-based synthetic browser checks, on-call alerting, incident management and branded status pages. Léo founded it alone; the company's About page now lists a small team around him.