Clearbeam

Clearbeam

Real-Time SaaS Insights, Delivered to your Email.

SaaS / Data Analytics · Founder · 13 months · Team of 1

Problem

SaaS teams often lack immediate visibility into critical product and revenue events, delaying response and decision-making.

Context

The product focuses on lightweight event ingestion and instant email alerts, with usage limits and plan upgrades built in.

Strategy

  1. Category-based event modeling — Typed events mapped to user-defined categories with strict validation.
  2. API-first design — Lightweight ingestion endpoint for product and revenue signals.
  3. Frictionless dashboard — Simple setup for API keys, categories, and Resend API.

Architecture

Web application — Next.js App Router frontend + Hono API layer on /api + Prisma ORM with Neon Postgres + Clerk auth + Stripe payments + Resend API.

Execution

Core features

  • Category management for event routing
  • Event ingestion endpoint with typed payloads
  • Delivery status tracking per notification
  • Monthly quota enforcement by plan tier
  • Stripe checkout and webhook handling for upgrades
  • Dashboard analytics views

Challenges

  • Secure API key ingestion — Keys validated per category without exposing secrets client-side
  • Reliable Discord delivery — Failed webhook deliveries tracked and surfaced in the dashboard
  • Per-plan quota enforcement — Monthly event limits applied consistently across ingestion paths
  • Consistent server/client data serialization — Shared types between Hono API and Next.js dashboard

Solution

Clearbeam provides a simple SaaS monitoring workflow: ingest typed events via API, map them to categories, and receive instant email notifications with contextual fields.

Measurable impact

  • Near real-time operational visibility — Reduced monitoring blind spots for sales, sign-ups, and incident events
  • Faster reaction time — Teams respond to critical events as they happen instead of discovering them in batch reports

Tech & infrastructure

Tech Stack

TypeScriptNext.js 16React 19Tailwind CSSHonoPrisma ORMZod@tanstack/react-query

Infrastructure

VercelNeon PostgreSQLNode.js runtimePrisma Neon Adapter

Integrations

Resend APIStripe Checkout + WebhooksRedis

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