follow.it has just launched a lifetime deal on AppSumo. A one-time payment starting at $49 gets you lifetime access to follow.it Premium, including the WordPress and website monitoring feeds that make this one worth a look if you manage sites for a living.
In most monitoring setups, there’s usually an uptime service emailing one address, a host sending SSL renewal warnings to another, a link checker running inside WordPress somewhere, and a plugin update you only spot when you happen to log in. That’s before the reading half of the job, with a feed reader you’ve stopped opening and a Slack channel where somebody shares the WordPress news you missed three days ago.
follow.it puts all of that into one account. Here’s what’s in the deal and what you’d actually use it for.
What the AppSumo Deal Gets You
The deal went live on AppSumo today, September 28th 2026, and starts at $49 as a one-time payment for lifetime access to follow.it Premium, covering the WordPress feeds, the website monitoring feeds, and everything else on the platform.
Premium is where follow.it stops being a demo. Most feeds can be followed once on the free plan, so the value shows up when you’re following the same feed type multiple times, which is exactly what happens the moment you’re monitoring more than one site.
follow.it is run by Inisev, the team behind Backup Migration and its 80,000+ active installs, so this isn’t a first-time listing from a team with no WordPress history.
The WordPress Feeds Are the Interesting Part
Plugin Watch alerts you when specific plugins push a new version, which is a different level of useful when you’re maintaining twenty client sites than when you’re running your own. There’s a theme equivalent, plus a feed that tells you when new plugins matching your criteria land in the repository, which is handy if you’re keeping an eye on a category you compete in.
If you publish plugins or themes yourself, there’s a rankings tracker for your position in the wordpress.org repository. That’s the sort of thing most of us check manually, badly, about once a month.
The official sources are covered too. You can follow WordPress News filtered by tag if you only care about release announcements, the Developer Blog, Trac with keyword filters, and any plugin support forum or Make team by adding /feed to the URL. Their own guide walks through the lot.
Website Monitoring Without Another Subscription
This is the part that will decide it for a lot of freelancers and agencies, because these are all things you’re either paying for separately or quietly not doing at all:
- Downtime alerts for when a site stops responding, so you hear it from a tool rather than from a client.
- SSL and TLS expiry warnings before the certificate lapses, which is the sort of failure that always seems to happen on a Friday.
- Domain expiry and WHOIS change alerts, useful when you’re holding domains for clients who forget they own them.
- Broken link monitoring across a site, plus page change alerts if you want to know when a specific URL is edited.
- DMARC and blacklist monitoring, so you find out about email deliverability problems before the client’s sales team does.
For developers, there’s also GitHub repository activity and vulnerability disclosures, which pairs neatly with the plugin update feeds.
Everything Else You Follow
Every source on follow.it works the same way, which is why the account you use for monitoring can just as easily handle your daily reading.
Websites and RSS feeds, YouTube channels, podcasts, Reddit communities, Hacker News topics, Product Hunt launches, and keyword mentions on X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn all become feeds you can filter and route wherever you want them, whether that’s email, RSS, Telegram, Slack, Discord, or the follow.it mobile app.
That combination is the major benefit of this platform. Monitoring tools don’t usually carry your reading, and feed readers don’t usually tell you your certificate is about to expire.
The thing I keep coming back to is how much of this work is currently done by memory and habit rather than by any tool at all. Most of us know roughly when a certificate expires and roughly which plugins are due an update, and that roughly is where client sites break.
Handing that job to something built for it is the easier call when it’s a one-time $49 deal rather than another subscription, and the AppSumo listing is live now.
So how many separate tools are currently telling you that something on your sites needs attention, and how many of those alerts do you actually read?
