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by rozenmd 2y ago
Keep it paired to an Android, never pair to an iPhone or Mac device.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Please don't use multiple accounts to promote your business on HN.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
I also run an uptime monitoring service with the same limitation, it's not sustainable in the long term to offer a free tier otherwise. A bit annoyed about this change though, I used to recommend folks looking for a ridiculous free tie
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by rozenmd 2y ago
This may be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42243282
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by rozenmd 2y ago
I externally monitor fly.io and it's docs here: https://flyio.onlineornot.com/ Looks like it lasted 16 minutes for them.
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OnlineOrNot Diaries 22 – on successfully leaving AWS Lambda(maxrozen.com)
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by rozenmd 2y ago
https://www.adopteunbureau.fr/ was the one I used
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by rozenmd 2y ago
plenty of businesses like this operate online too - had my aeron shipped from a Parisian startup liquidator
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by rozenmd 2y ago
I've been running a project for almost four years now, and have been vendoring/killing as many dependencies as I can. Core functionality now relies on no libraries, and increasingly moving off Next.js towards more open frameworks
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Mine is OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com What started as a week long project to experiment with uptime checking with Next.js and AWS Lambda turned into a multi-year project (approaching 4 years now). It now covers a much wid
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by rozenmd 2y ago
(assuming this is JavaScript): there's a difference between awaiting a promise, and just declaring a promise. Sometimes you want to declare a few promises first, before running await Promise.all() - sometimes, you don't even care
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OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill(onlineornot.com)
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Seems like pretty timeless content to me.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
The open-source SaaSes in this list that I use could be proprietary and I'd still use them, fwiw. Solving the problem I'm dealing with gets you a lot more points than me being able to fling you a PR, but maybe I'm an outlier
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OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill(onlineornot.com)
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by rozenmd 2y ago
As always, I'm working on OnlineOrNot ( https://OnlineOrNot.com ). This past week or so I've managed to reduce my AWS Lambda spend by more than half by moving the compute to Cloudflare Workers (where I don't get bil
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Run a rails server, a DB and you'll probably not need to worry about scale until you're earning millions a year.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Does Australia still have that insane "must have at least $10M in assets" rule for certain financial services?
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Keystatic: Open-Source Astro/Next.js CMS(keystatic.com)
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Looking for niches where no one else is building is overrated (I say this as someone who chose to start the 200th uptime monitor in 2021). Tell a prospect/customer that you'll do something, actually do it, and you'll be bette
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by rozenmd 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with competing with dozens of companies, just don't expect overnight success.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Yep, monitoring live uptime here: https://reddit.onlineornot.com/
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Durable Objects have always been the recommended way to do websocket connections on Cloudflare Workers? (as far as I remember, anyway) The original chat demo dates back to 2020, using DOs + websockets: https://github.com/clo
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Two years of two hours after work, 2x a week (could've easily compressed it into months if I had a tight deadline imo) Then a few months of living here and realising no one speaks that formally hah
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Ppersonally I learned French, moved to France, and started working remotely for American companies. 10/10 would recommend.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Uptime monitors ping your server, this seems to do the opposite.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
The term of art you're looking for is: "heartbeat check"/"healthcheck", or most commonly: "cron job monitor".
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Chuck up an unprotected form on the Internet and see the crap that gets submitted, it's the worst. I use a mix of honeypots and Cloudflare Turnstile to avoid the spam.
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by rozenmd 2y ago
Pull over push (I choose when I want to see what's new, no email/notification driven stuff)
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by rozenmd 2y ago
in large apps with tens of thousands of users per day, one of two things will happen with the library: it's being used in part of the app no one updates, so the old version of the library will continue being used for years it'll g

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