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Yes, forced lockdowns means more people inside playing with their toys :) The site stats definitely show that. I did a post back in May showing the initial impacts: https://rebrick…

There are certainly some negative people on the site, but the moderator team do a good job of making sure any criticism is genuine and not a personal attack. Thanks for your contin…

It started off as a side-project for fun, now has grown so large it's my primary income. Unfortunately it hasn't left me with enough spare time to enjoy LEGO much though. My kids e…

There have been several attempts that I know of. But they all tend to have a low number of categories they sort into - tens vs the thousands of actual categories that exist. I have…

The sorting can be quite relaxing for some people (ie me). Kind of like a background task you can perform while watching a movie and calm your mind of things.

- Django + Postgres + Ubuntu. Runs on Linode with some AWS usage and Digital Ocean for backups (I prefer backups on different platforms). - Content is community driven, along with …

Hey, I built this site and just noticed the traffic. If anyone has questions, ask away :) A better starting url is https://rebrickable.com/

2nd for The Bobiverse, it has some humour and had some fresh ideas in it.

Have you ever tried to use PayPal's documentation? Might make you feel better about Stripe :)

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

It's an "accen"t pointing to the fu"ture". source: unfortunately I used to work there when they came up with the name.

I loved it and paid for it. Sure, I didn't have to but I sure feel better having done so. Besides, I'd easily spend that money on a game that lasts a few dozen hrs at most so why n…

Agreed. I've been using Django for only a little while, and sometimes find it quite frustrating. Then something finally makes sense and I realise I've been doing it wrong and the p…

I had an account closed with about 2k in it and no amount of pestering them made a difference. Then suddenly, about a year afterwards (I think), they sent me a cheque with the bala…

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

After nearly a year of panicking about going from 7 to 10 and breaking all my tools, I finally did it a few days ago. Everything worked, nothing broke.

Yes, I've had lots of suggestions for applying the tech to other things but the problem is I have no interest in those other things :)

DBA (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL) https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submit…

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. I built the origi…

About $10-$20/day on 1.5M pageviews/month. My cpm/ctr sucks.

Yeah, ads and affiliate sales. It gets a decent amount of traffic (~130K users/month, 2M pageviews) but I have trouble monetising it.

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. The revenue fluct…

If their learning material is based on expert human games, how can it ever get better than that?

I don't show ads for every page view (only unregistered users), and click rate is more like 0.1%. Now I feel like I'm doing something very wrong... advice welcome!

$0.20 to $0.30 :(