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SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
The website is a compendium of all the coffee shops I've visited in the metro Atlanta area over the last five years + dozens more in the travel section. The monetization angles I have tried include the Membership (reader-supported) model and the Sponsorship (company/brand) model (with a nod to Packy McCormick's Not Boring newsletter for the "Deep Dive" approach, which I am a big fan of). Coffee shops may also post paid ads to barista jobs on the "job board" section of the site.
I wrote more about publishing content online, monetization strategies, and more in a recent blog post, for those curious [2].
I recognize that this forum is more focused on products, but I think some would appreciate the effort in trying to scale a blog/website with incremental products/services available to a dedicated audience.
[1] https://atlantacoffeeshops.com [2] https://www.atlantacoffeeshops.com/blog/a-brief-update-on-th...
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?
> nginx, latest php, mariadb.
> and of less importance: memcached and influxdb.
Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…
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Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
Tool for running online rankings/ratings polls. Use for low stakes stuff like deciding what movie to watch, group outing destination, club elections, etc. Can require google/fb login to de-dup votes, or can allow anonymous votes.
It's an experiment in academic publishing. Can we crowdsource peer review of scientific and scholarly papers using a StackExchange like reputation system?
And can we organize it as a non-profit funded by user donations?
We've known for years that academic publishing through the journals is really badly broken. It hides the primary sources of human knowledge behind a paywall on the basis that the journals are doing the hard work of filtering out misinformation - but the journals are actually manually crowdsourcing the filtering to unpaid reviewers.
And the filtering has broken down completely anyway in a world of self-publishing and predatory journals.
So can we crowdsource the filtering using a software platform, instead of manually using journal editors?
That's the premise of Peer Review. It uses a StackExchange like reputation system to match papers to qualified reviewers. It splits review into pre-publish review, focused on giving authors really good constructive feedback, and post-publish refereeing, focused on filtering malpractice. Reputation is primarily gained from votes on papers during refereeing, but can also be gained from giving good constructive pre-published reviews.
Right now it's a side project and will probably remain so for the forseeable future. But if it ever gains significant traction, I'd love to form a non-profit around it and exploring having it be governed by it's users.
It's an experiment in two ways: can we recreate the wikipedia model of funding with improved governance, and can we solve academic publishing through software mediated crowdsourcing.