I agree. From what I could see, it didn't look like it offered any extra or special functionality. I had expected it to do more dynamic loading of things like comments (like a nice transition over to a comments display or something similar).
Looks pretty good, I like that you use basically a webhook for status instead of building an agent or something similar.
I'm a little confused by the minimum interval attached to the different plans though. Is that just saying that the simple plan can only be configured to ensure there's a check-in at most every 60 minutes?