What Gato Blanco Is Building In 2026  (And Why)

Most products at Gato Blanco start the same way: as something we wish existed for us.

When a problem keeps showing up in our own work, or in conversations with small teams and creators, it usually turns into a sketch in a notebook, then a prototype, and if it keeps earning its place an actual product.

In 2026, that process is turning into two specific tools:

• A simple monitoring tool for websites and APIs.
• A LinkedIn recap web app that turns your data into a story you can actually show.

Both are aimed at the same kind of people we work with: small teams and individual builders who take their work seriously, but don’t have the luxury of a full observability team or a data department.

The problem with monitoring for small teams

If you talk to small product teams, the story is familiar:

They care deeply about their users. They ship fast. But they often find out something is broken because a customer sends an email or a DM.

Enterprise monitoring tools exist, of course. They are powerful and feature-rich, but often assume you have time, budget, and people dedicated to running them.

For many small teams, that’s not reality. Setting them up feels like a project on its own. The result is a gap:

• Either they run with almost no monitoring,
• Or they adopt a complex stack they never really use.

At Gato Blanco, the goal is to build something in between:

1. Focused on the basics that matter: availability, simple performance checks, clear alerts.
2. Easy to set up for a small team that just wants to know when something important changes.

The monitoring tool we’re building is designed to:

1. Watch key website and API endpoints.
2. Alert you through the channels you already use when something breaks.
3. Give you a simple view of what changed so you can respond quickly.

Not a full observability platform. Not a toy. Just enough signal so that “the customer told us first” stops being your main alerting system.

Why a LinkedIn recap app?

The second product comes from a different pattern: data that exists, but doesn’t feel like a story.

LinkedIn has been rolling out “Year in Review” style features that show an overview of your activity and growth. They’re interesting, but they are still very much LinkedIn’s version of your year.

The reality for many creators and founders is:

• They post, comment, and build relationships all year.
• At the end, they have no simple way to show that journey to their audience, clients, or even themselves.

The LinkedIn recap web app aims to change that.

Instead of keeping your data locked up in a feed, it will let you:

1. Upload your LinkedIn data export.
2. Generate a recap video in the spirit of a “Spotify Wrapped”, but focused on your professional year.
3. Highlight the things that matter to you: your consistency, your reach, your conversations & on your own terms.

The idea is not just to create something pretty, but something useful:

1. A way to reflect on your year.
2. A piece of content you can share with your audience or clients.
3. A starting point for decisions about what to double down on next.

Building tools we want to use ourselves

These two products might look different: one is about reliability, the other about storytelling, but they share a theme:

They help small teams and individual builders see what’s going on more clearly. In their systems. In their activity. In their own work.

That’s the thread running through Gato Blanco’s roadmap for 2026: collaborators, clients, revenue, and products that all orbit around better visibility and better stories from your data.

We’ll be sharing more of the journey as we build: what we’re trying, what breaks, and what we keep.

If early access to either the monitoring tool or the LinkedIn recap app sounds interesting, the best way to stay close is to follow Gato Blanco on LinkedIn and keep an eye on our updates.