Storefront Shield: DNS/SSL Autopilot with Edge Safe-Mode Commerce
9/10
Demand Score
DNS/SSL errors and platform outages immediately kill conversion and damage SEO; certificate expirations still happen despite reminders.
8/10
Blue Ocean
Competition Level
$299-1k
Price/Month
Predicted customer spend
8 days
Time to MVP
Difficulty: Moderate
The Problem
A reliability layer that manages dual DNS providers with health-checked failover, automates multi-CA TLS issuance/renewal, and serves an edge-cached ‘safe mode’ storefront when your commerce platform
🔗 Validated by Real User Complaints
This problem has been verified through 3 real user complaints:
Competitor Landscape
- Cloudflare (DNS/SSL/APO)
- Akamai
- Fastly Compute@Edge
- Edgemesh
- Atlassian Statuspage
Must-Have Features for MVP
Dual-provider DNS with automated health checks and TTL tuning
Multi-CA TLS automation with pre-rotation and canary renewals
Edge ‘safe mode’ cache for PWA/SSR storefronts
Order-intent queue with delayed capture and reconciliation
Automatic incident messaging and status page updates
RUM-based outage detection and alerting
SEO-safe headers and canonicalization in failover
Drill-down postmortems and SLA reporting
⚠️ Potential Challenges
- Cache consistency vs. freshness trade-offs
- Order-intent handling without full platform APIs
- Coordinating DNS changes with low TTLs
- Ensuring PCI boundaries in safe mode
Risk Level: Moderate
🎯 Keys to Success
- Visible uptime improvement and fewer support tickets
- No lost carts during incidents
- Zero-touch SSL renewals and reduced human error
- SEO protected via proper caching and canonicals
- Fast rollback and clear reconciliation flow
Ready to Build This?
This moderate-difficulty project could be your next micro-SaaS success.