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Hi, Sebastien here, creator of this side project :) A little context about the creation of the app: It all started in July when, for the book I just started w

Hi, Sebastien here, creator of this side project :) A little context about the creation of the app: It all started in July when, for the book I just started writing, I created a web app that generates the HTML and CSS to embed a 3D book cover on a website. I posted it here on HackerNews, and, big surprise, it was a huge success! It stayed #1 for the whole day and brought me a lot of useful feedback: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23896856 From that day, I kept in my mind to create an application to enable people to create a 3D Cover and embed it without caring about the HTML and CSS, just by copying and pasting a small code snippet wherever they want. I developed it using tools I already knew, using cloud services when possible, because my goal was to release as soon as possible. A small overview of the tech stack: - Node.js/Express for the webserver - Heroku to host the webserver - MongoDB Atlas for the database - React, only for the 3D cover editor - Auth0 for the authentication - Cloudinary to host images - Stripe to handle premium account purchase What do you think?

candiodari 6y ago
Isn't all that really expensive for hosting a small bit of javascript and a few images (all of which could be linked into 1 single request) ? I guess I'm saying I'd love to hear a bit about what the hosting + running costs of such a solution are.
- scastiel 6y ago
  For now the costs are very low, only the domain name and $5 for Heroku. The rest is free, and should remain until I have huge traffic. But I agree with you, a more optimized architecture could be more scalable, this will be for a second version ;)
swyx 6y ago
congrats on launching! tracked your Netlify tool since the previous show hn. since launching my book I realized the need for a beautiful book image haha. I now have a directory of device mock tools https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#device-mocks https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dev... and you're in there
- scastiel 6y ago
  Very cool, thanks :)
alexknowshtml 6y ago
I love it! Used it to make the book shown on my site https://tiny.mba https://tiny.mba Also cool, I use it in a browser overlay when I do livestreaming with OBS! Once I realized I could embed HTML/CSS in the stream I was able to copy/paste this right into the overlay. So easy.
- scastiel 6y ago
  Very cool Alex, glad you like it :)

candiodari 6y ago

Isn't all that really expensive for hosting a small bit of javascript and a few images (all of which could be linked into 1 single request) ? I guess I'm saying I'd love to hear a bit about what the hosting + running costs of such a solution are.

scastiel 6y ago
For now the costs are very low, only the domain name and $5 for Heroku. The rest is free, and should remain until I have huge traffic. But I agree with you, a more optimized architecture could be more scalable, this will be for a second version ;)

swyx 6y ago

congrats on launching! tracked your Netlify tool since the previous show hn. since launching my book I realized the need for a beautiful book image haha. I now have a directory of device mock tools https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#device-mocks https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#dev... and you're in there

scastiel 6y ago
Very cool, thanks :)

alexknowshtml 6y ago

I love it! Used it to make the book shown on my site https://tiny.mba https://tiny.mba Also cool, I use it in a browser overlay when I do livestreaming with OBS! Once I realized I could embed HTML/CSS in the stream I was able to copy/paste this right into the overlay. So easy.

scastiel 6y ago
Very cool Alex, glad you like it :)