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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Hey HN! I never imagined my blog would land on the front page — and yet, here we are. The traffic spike (over 190k requests in a day) didn’t take my site down thanks to preparation I did last year, particularly with Cloudflare caching and
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I Survived the Front Page of Hacker News Without Crashing My Site(danielpetrica.com)
4 points by danielpetrica 1y ago|2 comments
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thank you for your suggestions. I'll share this info with my team members. I also think is better to limit the scope for, at least, the first travels until we establish a process.
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thank you — that’s genuinely useful advice. You clearly have experience in this space, and I really appreciate the thoughtful insights. I’ll definitely share them with my team. > People will tell you whatever they think you want to hear.
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
We hope that selling a solution to a problem people already have marketing will be easier
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thank you! We do have fun at moment still, hope we can continue having fun
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Totally agree — execution is everything. We're trying to build on the momentum from the event and shape the product fast. Would love your thoughts: is there anything you think we should do better or differently?
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Cloudflare reported spikes of 13k requests per hour and cached 90%+ of the requests saving my site. And the America continents were mostly asleep when it started, this things saved my site mostly.
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thanks for the great response! If you're curious how I handled this spike of traffic on a self-hosted Ghost blog, I'm writing a follow-up on my website, you can subscribe to read it tomorrow: danielpetrica.com
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Probably I explained myself badly due to English not being my first language. >sport and leisure group trips travel This is basically what we want to build. Organize trips that let you do sport, visit new places and if needed continue y
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Yeah of course we did not reinvent the wheel, but from our personal experiences, user interviews and searches this is not present at the moment in the Italian market. > "Gym access, comfortable accommodations, sightseeing, custom m
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Sorry for the delay, I didn't see your comment. the idea behind this logic is that, if you solve a real problem and do it well marketing will be a lot easier and you won't have to spend millions on marketing if you don't wan
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
You can totally see my english is not the best. > Organising group tours as such is easy, but the value is in the creative input that engages and inspires possible clients. Destination, people - both guides and participants, activities,
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thank you very much for pointing that out for me, I corrected it, cache permitting it should be live in the next 5 minutes
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Me too! I went there for the same reason and met some interesting people. I also had great conversations with others. Personally, I’m very introverted, especially around people I don’t know. But talking to those in the same field or about s
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
My friends sent me this link with a article from one of the organizers It's in italian so you may need a translation service. you can find the pitch for the top 3 ideas there: https://ltomantova.it/2025/03/3
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Ahh. I don't know if you're talking about revenue or clients count. I'll presume you mean revenue. I personally don't think that kind of scale can be reached in the the first 4 or 5 years, of the company. We want t
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
We aim to offer trips to people caring about their lifestyle, think going to the gym, or being careful about what they eat. we want them to be able to meet like minded people and fun around people with similar interests. Our fist founder i
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Yeah, it was my first weekend and I went there just with the objective of having fun and do something different but ended up going to this idea because the one presenting it had a huge charisma when presenting it and captured my interest.
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Thank you for the information. If you have any other advice please tell me I'm very grateful for any advice We're aware that the small validation we were able to do during the weekeend so now we are trying to validate it really by
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Hi, not that I'm aware of it. It was only the second time they holded this event in a smaller town in Italy (Mantova) so it's a bit less organized on that side.
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
Laravel is beloved for its expressive syntax and developer-friendly ecosystem. But once your app hits production, performance issues, slow queries, or silent errors can hurt the user experience—and your bottom line. That’s where New Relic s
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My experience participating to a startup weekend competition in Italy(danielpetrica.com)
55 points by danielpetrica 1y ago|41 comments
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by danielpetrica 1y ago
A few weeks ago, I participated in a startup competition in Italy. Over a single weekend, my team had to develop a startup idea, validate it, and pitch it against other teams. In this article, I’ll share our experience and the key lessons t
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
Can't wait to see how much it costs. having a fully managed environment seems very useful and promising
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
They collaborated with several countries including Italy
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
It's nice to see progress in space exploration. I saw the landing footage and is beautiful. Congratulations for a nice achievement to the people working on this project
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
I'm loving new-relic but I always found new relic deployments hard to track, especially as I'm not using GitHub actions for my deployment pipeline. To make my life a lot easier I prepared a custom Laravel command which send to New
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
I'd love to put linux on that. I'm gonna wait for reviews for it. If I'll see that linux can be installed on that I can see it became my main developer machine.
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by danielpetrica 2y ago
Saw a Ltt video about a sunscreen monitor. Isn't it the same thing?

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