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Hey y’all, I wrote about my 6-year tenure as a CTO across two fintech startups, specifically around securing banking systems. I was particularly proud of the GraphQL/Redis solution…

https://reqres.in/ - roughly that much in ads revenue. Would love to add a paid plan for more features, but....time.

Hey all - I built this tool recently to help people repurpose their existing content (website copy, blog posts, etc) into blocks of social media posts for the various platforms. En…

Hey all, wanted to show you a UK PS5 stock checker I made: https://istheps5instockyet.store/ It’s hosted on Vercel (free) and uses Redis Labs 100MB tier ($7/month) and uses Rainfor…

I built and run Reqres - A hosted REST-API ready to respond to your AJAX requests (https://reqres.in/) - a free tool for developers. It receives millions of requests a month (this …

Yup, $5/month DigitalOcean droplet + free CloudFlare tier.

I launched a side project ~5 years ago that does simulated API responses with fake data. Never checked analytics beyond launch but I've just discovered its received 4.5M unique vis…

Oh, never spotted this: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero#running-on-cloud Oops. Couldn't see it on the main docs site ( https://zeroserver.io/ )

Ace! but in terms of running it, how would Heroku know how to, ie. if there's no `package.json`, there'll be no `npm run start` defined?