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   OnlineOrNot Diaries 10: on re-rearchitecting my SaaS on AWS(maxrozen.com)

   2 points by rozenmd 3y ago|0 comments
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I originally built OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) to have a convenient way to convince my contracting clients that their hosting sucks.
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I (an Australian) met my wife (French) while on Erasmus in the Netherlands - incredible opportunity for meeting people around the world.
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   So that's 8333/mo. If you can convince around 170 businesses, or business-minded folks to pay $49 each month for a service you provide, or info-product (but then you need to keep finding new customers), you're there. Easier s
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I use a bunch of if/else statements to detect if websites are offline, if that counts: https://onlineornot.com
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   I don't really plan. I get an idea, draw up a diagram and start building it. Eventually, I'll screw something up and learn something. That's part of the process.
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   The Cloudflare Discord is where it's at.
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   do you have a guide that you followed? having tried to follow the readme it seems like it only works on DHH's machine with a certain configuration of rails and linux
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   by rozenmd 3y ago

   It can do a check every 30 seconds, but users configure it as needed
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    by rozenmd 3y ago

    I originally built OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) to have a convenient way to convince my contracting clients that their hosting sucks. They'd be like "Oh but I pay $5/mo for this wordpress host, it's
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    "all articles", with title and excerpt listed on a single super long page. no complaints.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    For the frontend: put a CDN in front of it, add caching. In my experience, most folks just want to see what the fuss is about, not so much make an account and start using the app. So as long as your post-login experience can take a few user
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I wouldn't: https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tech-choice-regrets-at-spectrum/ Just use Postgres.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Aren't they legally obliged to build product there if they want to sell it in India?
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    What does your product do for people? I would hire this tool to perform X job in my business - what's X?
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I asked the question out of curiosity + shared what I'm working on. Copying an idea and writing code will get folks maybe 10% of what goes into building a sustainable business, so I'm not too worried myself.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Thanks!
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Personally, I've been working on OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com/ ) for over two years - it's a set of uptime monitoring tools, with a hosted status page. There's an open source CLI ( https://gi
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    Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

    95 points by rozenmd 4y ago|99 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I share links to my blog about React on forums/twitter if it helps the person asking a question (my hack for this is that if I see a common enough question, I write an article for next time I see it) (this is the second time I've
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I've been working on a sustainable SaaS (for me, anyway) for a few years now, it's significantly easier to sell someone a one-off product like an ebook than a subscription
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Yeah I suggest a T480 for double the cores, but honestly the T470 isn't bad either.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Alternatively, get a T480: https://maxrozen.com/getting-your-own-good-enough-laptop-for...
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Giving myself two hours a day to build a business. I actually do worse when I have more time, so this works quite well for me.
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I wanted to document a regular person's experience building a business while working full time, it wasn't until the end of my third year before I made my first dollar from a stranger on the internet: year 1: https://max
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    I recently wrote about this (focused on delivering software, but I've applied it to running, lifting weights, and more over the last 12 years): https://onlineornot.com/unreasonable-effectiveness-shipping-...
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    Ask HN: Does your team run recurring scripts/tasks in production?

    2 points by rozenmd 4y ago|1 comments
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    OnlineOrNot Diaries #6: A new monitoring service for OnlineOrNot(maxrozen.com)

    1 points by rozenmd 4y ago|0 comments
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Depends on what you mean by "tech" - I have two: https://maxrozen.com , where I write about React, and sell an extremely condensed book on a single function that few understand (useEffect), I use Gumroad for this. http
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    by rozenmd 4y ago

    Hash the ip address + user agent + year/month, use that as a unique identifier for the month (note that you only need to store the hash)