I witnessed the problem first-hand:- My consulting clients ($1-10M annual revenue) managed to get their SSL Certificate expired. Sometimes, their card expired. At other times, the person responsible was on vacation, so it got missed.
- I use Letsencrypt issued certificates on my own projects & a couple of times I discovered the renewal cron has failed and my SSL certificate was broken.It simply translates into a broken website, loss of revenue & scaring users off.So, I built this tool to use for myself & currently working on extending it to do more. But that's a work in progress. 40+ days & counting. So, I took the core idea out and built this tool over the weekend (10-11 Feb 2018).Written on 12 Feb 2018

I have been building my primary product for 40+ days now and its going to be a month more before I build it out. What if I built that nobody wanted or something that was very hard to communicate? People tend to be ignorant of security stuff, even though its important.So, I decided to extract out the core idea I had & offer it as a free tool. This achieves 2 things:- Offering something valuable for free, which would translate into more security on the web.
- Enough people using this also validates my primary product.