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It’s a nice surprise to check HN and have my project featured on the front page. Thanks polm23 for posting and everyone else for the nice words!
by leafac 6y ago
It’s a nice surprise to check HN and have my project featured on the front page.
Thanks polm23 for posting and everyone else for the nice words!
- betwixthewires 6y agoThank you for creating this! I'm an avid user of RSS and Atom, and I absolutely loathe email subscriptions (although I understand why many groups use them), so a tool to remove that friction for admittedly rare people like me is wonderful. Thank you for running this service, I intend to use it quite a lot!
- ymolodtsov 6y agoSeems it'd take significant costs to run it, how do you still manage to do that?
- leafac 6y agoThe most significant cost has been my time, but that’s my pet project in which I get to experiment with new technologies, so it pays off nicely. Also, you can support me: Recurring (Patreon): https://patreon.com/leafac https://patreon.com/leafac / One-time (PayPal): https://paypal.me/LeandroFacchinetti https://paypal.me/LeandroFacchinetti In terms of server costs, it all runs smoothly on a $6/month DigialOcean droplet. Even when I end up on the front-page of HN (it’s the second time this happens). And there’s also the ~$10/year for the domain. There’s actually a fun story behind this: The biggest constraint is bandwidth (~500GB/month). I was using S3 and at some point that’d amount to $50/month. But DigitalOcean droplets give you 1TB/month, so to save money I rearchitected the whole thing to just use the filesystem. It turned out to be simpler and nicer to maintain, too. Fewer moving parts. Fun stuff…