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> Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on. Depends. Here's a random SaaS which I assume is making money: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/119
by zelly 6y ago
> Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on.
Depends. Here's a random SaaS which I assume is making money:
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/11984 https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/11984
A URL shortening service. Yeah, I'm thinking this could fit on a Pi. Database and everything on the SD card. Latency won't be great, but it should be possible, especially if you rewrote it in Rust.
It doesn't have to run a Bitcoin fullnode. It can run a SPV wallet which would take a few megabytes if that.
> take its bitcoin private key
Generate and store the key in a Hardware Security Module
The biggest killers are related to BTC. It would be difficult to pay for 5G with BTC (although there probably could be workarounds like how Purse.io has humans with credit cards buy your Amazon shopping carts in exchange for your BTC) and also difficult to get subscription revenue in BTC. Something like Libra could solve all these problems.
- bad_user 6y agoWho would pay for a URL shortening service, especially one that can lose your URLs?
- raghavtoshniwal 6y agoMaybe? But only if it ran on a tree and was powered by the sun
- kebman 6y ago> Raspberry Pi is way underpowered to run any SaaS on. Now there's a sentence that triggered a lot of anecdotes to prove the contrary lol! I gather that while it is indeed possible, I have my doubts as to how practical or economic it might be. Anyone willing to accept the challenge? ;)