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Guys, you learned nothing ! You are the top comment on HN, you should share the link to your project :)
Noo! And it's too late to edit the comment. https://rysolv.com/
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I second that. SEO is a slow growing channel and it takes some time to get effects. Starting earlier can help out. Also, make sure that your page loads fast - especially the content that you are trying to index. Low hanging fruit like optimising image size or cleaning up your imports can have a big effect. When just starting out with little backlinks, good page speed loads can be the differentiator that will put you…
> Also, make sure that your page loads fast To me this sounds like "code in pure HTML, no React/Angular or anything like that". Am I correct?
It doesn't have to be that way though. If you want to use React, there are tools to help you easily make something like a static site generator (SSG) which will transform your React code down into pre-rendered HTML pages. Two popular ones are Gatsby (https://gatsby.dev/) and Next.js (https://nextjs.org/) which also supports Server Side Rendering (SSR).
So out of the box plain HTML / CSS might be more optimized than a fresh create-react-app repo, but if you prefer to use the toolset provided by React to build your site (or Vue or Angular, etc), there are plenty of options to make that equally performant.
I’ll give the exact opposite of what you ask, just because we could easily have chosen not to do it. Our business was initially built on analysing data from a commercial provider and selling those insights to customers. The provider required that both we and each of our customers paid a high license fee. It became pretty clear that the provider was moving towards lots of tools and value added features on top of their…
"Commoditize your complement" I had hosting issues in many of my companies and consulting projects, running from "WTF is this AWS bill $10k???" to "WTF did our 10gbit/s download just kick Heroku offline?" But people can only appreciate the things I build for them if they are hosted well. So I took the obvious next step and purchased a small struggling hosting company. We then introduced nicer tooling that imitates th…
Cool idea! I'm a pro SRE guy, with 20+ years of experience and working with US top500 companies. If anyone wants to partner up and replicate this, let me know! You can also reach me on matrix: @kim0:halogen.city
Going the other way of buying a failing hosting company would inherit its problems, mainly the lack of customers to break even.
I second this one… I can’t think of a single product in this world that truly sells itself.
(There's nothing wrong with it, it just veered a bit offtopic.)
It might sound dumb, but monetizing my site was the stepping stone to make it take off. I run a solitaire website called https://online-solitaire.com/ that ran for a few years without me earning any money from it. I kind of thought that no-one earned money from banner ads anymore, so I didn't even bother with them. One day I decided to try it out and earned around $1000 the first month. That gave me the boost to spen…
Fast forward to now, my wife has a new job. I still hate ads, but I have become accustomed to that extra $300 each month and have had trouble talking myself into taking it down.
The moral here? I am working on that myself.
To paraphrase my brilliant cofounder, mentor and tough sparring partner: "The biggest lie you techies tell to yourselves is 'Build it and they will come'. Nope. Nobody ever comes by. I've beaten competitors with the better product again and again. Know why? Because marketing builds growth, growth builds revenue and revenue enables hiring brilliant people to fix your product, all the while the brilliant product people…
(There's nothing wrong with it, the subthread just ended up veering offtopic.)
It might sound dumb, but monetizing my site was the stepping stone to make it take off. I run a solitaire website called https://online-solitaire.com/ that ran for a few years without me earning any money from it. I kind of thought that no-one earned money from banner ads anymore, so I didn't even bother with them. One day I decided to try it out and earned around $1000 the first month. That gave me the boost to spen…
I run a blog that gets about 200k unique users a month. My wife lost her job at the beginning of Covid-19, and I slapped a single ad on my most popular post to supplement our income. I hate ads, but income is income. It’s bringing in over $300 a month. Fast forward to now, my wife has a new job. I still hate ads, but I have become accustomed to that extra $300 each month and have had trouble talking myself into takin…
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Buy my startup @ https://PretzelBox.cc . Jokes aside, PretzelBox is a hosting company aka backend in a box and your comments are giving me a ton of hope.
My first reaction was: "No idea what they do" Then I read the "Host your blog right here on PretzelBox." and clicked the Blog link on top. " https://pretzelbox.notion.site/8d8ba84f16ea456984020cc15efad... " And I thought to myself "So it's a well-marketed notion whitelabel reseller." You're probably good at marketing, but I'm not sure what Cloud back-end infrastructure IP you would have for sale...
Your emails use SES for send/receive, files are stored in S3, auth is managed using cognito, the blog that users present to their site visitors are a Svelte SPA.
(The blog itself is a WIP so im using Notion to host my own content for now)
Think of it as a single replacement for Wordpress, dropbox/wetransfer, and gmail/gsuite.
The intellectual property is the working to provide a fully functioning business-y email inbox running on your custom domain, the code to host your own content at scale on your own domain, and code to secure access to private content.
So, your customers could use you for email management, use you to send and receive files, write blogs, and manage their team’s authentication and authorization.
I wish there were a simpler word to describe it but since it’s so many things, I went with “backend in a box”.
Added rocket engines to the base