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Fragments.me doesn't run it for free, I pay for hosting and devops (which I do on my own). Running it on your own should take minutes as it's just a Meteor app, so anything like a …

I always found bookmark apps to be missing the features I needed to I ended building my own open-source bookmarking tool back in 2015 and I still use it to this day. I'll share it …

I agree, I deliberately generalised with those examples to make a little clear that as the required traffic, capacity and risk increases there's a lot of benefits with using servic…

Depending on how you provision the services (e.g. infrastructure as code) you may not be locked in at all and switching to a new provider is relatively straight forward. This comes…

Why do you need to use a major service though? There's a ton of cloud providers you can use that offer pretty much a similar range of services and are certified, e.g. ISO27001, SoC…

Nowadays there's such an abundance of PaaS that in my opinion it doesn't make any sense anymore to get a VPS and manage it yourself, unless you're willing to potentially spending n…

Yes, tell me about not needing the cloud (aka a managed provisioning and scaling service) when your poorly configured database breaks, or when you need a 3 hours downtime on prod b…

I was one of the tech founders of a start-up called Cronycle which made a similar (but more advanced) tool many years ago: https://www.cronycle.com/ I don't know if I can still rec…

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know about a product I just released with a couple of friends. It's called Belocal and the idea behind it is about letting people find great tours …

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know about a product I just released with a couple of friends. It's called Belocal and we aim to do something like "the AirBnb of travel". Here's t…

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