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Since we are on Hacker News, it would be interesting to read something about the tech stack behind the product. After visiting your blog, I suppose you can tell
by vladholubiev 8y ago
Since we are on Hacker News, it would be interesting to read something about the tech stack behind the product. After visiting your blog, I suppose you can tell, for example, how just-comments.com provides high availability with the help of AWS Kinesis, DynamoDB, Athena, etc.
By the way, this page is 404: https://just-comments.com/about.html https://just-comments.com/about.html (and some others from ToS)
Otherwise, congrats on the launch and good luck!
- orkon 8y agoThanks, I will fix the broken links :-) The tech is completely hosted on AWS, and it is entirely "serverless". So the core is using the API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB. Additionally, I use Kinesis Firehose + S3 to process internally generated data such as billing events. Athena helps me to query the data if needed. Basically, the scalability & high availability is entirely provided by AWS and the pricing model matches almost 1-to-1 the pricing by AWS. If you have any specific questions about the tech, I can answer them.
- EmilBruckner 8y agoIf you match the pricing almost 1:1 / don't really make a profit, why don't you open-source it? Or do you actually make quite some profit by people who pay but don't really use their credits? Just being curious about your plans
- orkon 8y agoI match the model, not the price. I don't think you can make a profit from people who pay and don't use. Such people typically don't subscribe. Generally, the project is none-free and low-margin and that is what makes it interesting. There are plenty of dead and alive open source projects offering comments which you can use.