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Zatresi - http://www.zatresi.si/ http://www.zatresi.si/ It's a map of sport clubs (gyms, karate dojos, swimming pools, etc) in Slovenia. Why I made it? After
by pedrokost 11y ago
Zatresi - http://www.zatresi.si/ http://www.zatresi.si/
It's a map of sport clubs (gyms, karate dojos, swimming pools, etc) in Slovenia.
Why I made it?
After moving back to Slovenia I started looking for a traditional Karate dojo. My choice would be constrained by hour of training and dojo philosophy (traditional karate vs sports karate). It turned out to be really difficult to find all the dojos nearby, as they neither on Google Maps, and many have very poor website (and terrible SEO). I spend two days Googling for all the possible hits, and I had created a list of Karate dojos. After selecting one (which turned out to be great), I thought that other people would be able to benefit from the list. So I made this website, where all the karate dojos were plotted on a map. Later, I started adding more categories.
Why it's awesome?
It's a time saver, and I am trying to convert it to a community maintained website. And it's all open source. To exist it requires zero maintenance, and hosting costs 0.30 EUR per month.
Going forward
1) I want to expand it to more categories
2) I am looking for partnerships with sport organizations who would like to place a Zatresi map on their website for their visitors to more easily find related klubs (e.g. a the karate organization could show the map of all karate klubs in Slovenia)
3) Even more brand awareness - this requires more time investment, so it's tricky. I am trying to identify clusters where I could have the most impact (sport forums, etc)
- sillysaurus3 11y agoTo exist it requires zero maintenance, and hosting costs 0.30 EUR per month. Whoa, cool! How is it so inexpensive? That's an order of magnitude cheaper than a DO droplet. Or to put it another way: I'm curious where the 0.30 comes from. It seems like it would be either 0.00 or >1.00
- rahimnathwani 11y agoThat's about 4USD per year, which is about the cheapest you can get a VPS with its own IPv4 address: http://lowendstock.com/ http://lowendstock.com/ You can even get cheaper than that. Although LowEndSpirit does not offer a dedicated IPv4 address, they use haproxy to send requests to the correct VPS based on the host header.
- pedrokost 11y agoI use the free Heroku plan for the backend. Given I am limiting myself to just 1 country, the sleeping rules don't bother me, and the 14k row limit is good enough for now. So the cost comes from serving the JS and CSS files from S3. And that's 0.30 per month
- mtmail 11y agoYou're using Mapbox map tiles with an API key of another company (that's costing them money). You're also not showing the Mapbox and Openstreetmap copyright which you are required to do. http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
- pedrokost 11y agoYou're right. Fixing this is on the top of my TODO list