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by mrskitch 8y ago
Ah, I wasn’t calculating their other fees like invocations and networking costs. Crazy it’s almost an order-of-magnitude
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Running 10 concurrent Google Functions at 1GB/1CPU. Assumes 30 days in a month
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Something somewhat related: I think more Cloud providers need to start doing Docker-functions. It’s always going to be a waiting game for runtimes and upgrades. Docker is portable and can run just about anything, so why not support that? h
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Ouch, thanks for the heads up!
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Yes: anything available on the `page` object is available in the /function route, so request interception is available!
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Have you seen https://docs.browserless.io/docs/pdf.html ? It’s in a docker image too if that’s all you need.
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Great to see you here Tim, love that chrome extension! We should chat a bit more sometime. I’d love to back checkly’s infrastructure.
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Our small instance ($30/month) is roughly similar to their $44.38 instance on App Engine. If you were to run a full 10 concurrent sessions constantly, which a small browserless instance can max-out at, this would cost roughly $427 a mo
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by mrskitch 8y ago
If Google cloud ain’t your jam then checkout browserless ( https://browserless.io/ ). It can be considerably cheaper under certain situations, and we’ve been up and running for almost a year. Happy to answer questions if anyo
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Browserless now has global instances available(docs.browserless.io)
2 points by mrskitch 8y ago|1 comments
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say thanks for the discussion here. One of my favorite parts of Hacker News is reading through comments and challenging beliefs I've held, and absorbing new ones. Lots for me to think about, and hopefully th
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback, this is something that has been brought up a few times, via folks from other backgrounds and positions. I'm still trying to think of the best way to tackle this sort of "personalization", but will kee
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Your latter point definitely keeps me up at night :/
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by mrskitch 8y ago
I think it still bears repeating, mostly because different styles of writing impact people differently (even if it's just the same core-content). It also helps _me_ solidify what I'm feeling. But I agree with you on the next phase
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by mrskitch 8y ago
:) This is something I've been thinking about as well. I'll have to write up something more details and "when not to" as it's just as hard to pin down as "when you should." Thanks for chiming in!
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by mrskitch 8y ago
It took me at least several weeks to get an idea of what the legal landscape even looks like, and what/whom I needed to engage. Definitely could be easier, and in its own way it is a gate-keeping mechanism I feel.
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Definitely. Even the term "startup" is overloaded. Simpler terminology, like you mentioned, would go a long way to make newcomers feel more welcome. Thanks for the kind words!
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by mrskitch 8y ago
It's funny cause I've heard it so many times, but it never really sank in. I always assumed folks were just saying that, but it's super-hard to cope with. I lay awake at night from glee and border-line depression because of i
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by mrskitch 8y ago
That's really fascinating to me. Optimizing for an acquisition might also come with a nice bi-product of keeping the business , itself, more self-sustaining. I'll have to give this book a read, thanks for the suggestion!
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Cobin! Wish you were still around PDX, really miss hanging out :) Let me know when you're back and we'll get 808 again!
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Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself(docs.browserless.io)
543 points by mrskitch 8y ago|97 comments
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by mrskitch 8y ago
When I started browserless.io, I was having a heck of a time getting Chrome running properly in Docker. After about 1 month of hit-n-miss `docker build`'s (which was taking ~15 minutes each time due to the amount of deps and lack of la
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by mrskitch 8y ago
That's a fantastic point: I'll add that as a gotcha
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by mrskitch 8y ago
The reason I baked dumb-init into the image was in order to offer better dev UX (since I'm assuming some/lots/most folks out there will just `docker run` without much context on what's going on). I actually like specifyi
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Awesome stats, I've actually run across Ahrefs a few times during my development and purview of other products. Really: well done on that, I hold Ahrefs in high esteem
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by mrskitch 8y ago
This is what I've initially noticed as well (app will run for several days and eventually the account will cancel due to unavailability ... you'll get paged). The screenshot I showed in that post is an instance that's been ru
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Appreciate the feedback! I'm undergoing a massive redesign of the site that should be much friendlier. What you're seeing right now is the work of one person under tight deadlines :)
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Are you using something like dumb-init or equivalent? That's a definite requirement as _not_ having it results in zombie processes hanging around (which do retain some memory footprint). Read more about that here: https://gi
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by mrskitch 8y ago
Yeah, definitely a product that you don't realize you need...until you find the issue. As of now it's a pool of headless Chrome instances that you can control remotely and run tasks through. Screenshots, PDFs, scraping... whatever
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by mrskitch 8y ago
I've definitely noticed this as well and have been working on a "auto-scale" feature as well (to tone-down concurrency when under load). It's not an easy task, but you can see my first pass here: https://githu

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