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Being on the HN front page is going to blow out your budget for the month probably. Hope it doesn't cost you too much! I had issues with my own site using Stree
by modeless 5y ago
Being on the HN front page is going to blow out your budget for the month probably. Hope it doesn't cost you too much! I had issues with my own site using Street View which is even more expensive than maps (https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/ https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/) until I found out you can apply for large amounts of free Google Maps API credits for educational and non-profit use. It's a little stressful because if you exceed your credits and don't deactivate the API in time you can still end up with a large bill, and the credits have to be re-approved every year in a slow and uncertain manual process. But hey, it's free and pretty generous, and nobody else has Street View so my site can't work without it.
- tppiotrowski 5y agoIt's a little early to say, but someone posted it on r/InternetIsBeautiful last month and it had about 75K visitors over two days. It looks like the front page of HN will be just a fraction (20%?) of that traffic. Reddit is truly massive, but I appreciate the HN discussions more.
- modeless 5y agoYou're right, I went and looked up my stats and HN doesn't seem as large as I thought. My biggest traffic days have been from Facebook. When Starlink is visible over a major city, I sometimes get a bump in traffic from people sharing the site. I was skeptical at first that adding social share buttons was important, but I think it actually has driven quite a bit of traffic. And I've gotten a ton of twitter followers which is cool. Though they don't actually care about what I tweet about, it's just nice to have a big number on my profile.