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Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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Post by patillacode »

deafpolygon wrote: post #27
lemiffe wrote: post #3

The demo doesn't work (invalid account when using the creds mentioned on the homepage)

Same. It just doesn’t work. Also a bit confused about self-hosted vs “free”.

You can self host the app yourself or use the free hosted one I provide

Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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Post by qixxiq »

I’d caution against your “free forever” offer. Most people tend to backtrack on it.

There’s one case where it gets super popular, or attacked by spammers/bots, and the site becomes more effort to operate publicly than you want to do for free.

In another case your girlfriend stops using it, as well as some family, and the continued maintenance over the years feels like it isn’t worth it (because there is always maintenance.)

Either way you might want to shut it down, and promising “forever” to users feels problematic when you’re not being finically incentivised to keep it running. With the financial incentives it’s much easier to pass the burden on to someone else if you can’t run it for whatever reason too.

Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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qixxiq wrote: post #34

I’d caution against your “free forever” offer. Most people tend to backtrack on it. There’s one case where it gets super popular, or attacked by spammers/bots, and the site becomes more effort to operate publicly than you want to do for free. In another case your girlfriend stops using it, as well as some family, and the continued maintenance over the years feels like it isn’t worth it (because there is always mainte…

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Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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Post by patillacode »

raonyguimaraes wrote: post #29
patillacode wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tested many times, I have asked other people too... I cannot replicate what you are experiencing, sorry.

Edit: It was firefox, it doesn't work on firefox!

I use firefox and I have e2e tests that work in firefox, feel free to create an issue in the github repo explaining a bit what is not working for you

Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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Post by quaintdev »

I used memos which has similar feature set. One day I lost my hard drive and I had to restore from s3. Turns out the backup I had was incompatible with latest version of memos app.

Since then I just gave up on web based tools for notes. I just want to save my notes and be able to recover them when things go wrong. A simple directory with markdown files and hugo blog allows me to do that.

OP how does your app store the journal entries?

Re: Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend

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Post by patillacode »

qixxiq wrote: post #34

I’d caution against your “free forever” offer. Most people tend to backtrack on it. There’s one case where it gets super popular, or attacked by spammers/bots, and the site becomes more effort to operate publicly than you want to do for free. In another case your girlfriend stops using it, as well as some family, and the continued maintenance over the years feels like it isn’t worth it (because there is always mainte…

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate that you are looking out for me really.

My intention, the meaning of "forever free", is that I will provide the service for anyone and everyone that cannot self-host themselves, but of course, if I don't have money myself to rent a server, for example, and I have to shut the app down I would inform the people using it. This is more or less expected from a free app in my experience and there is a paragraph in the terms related to this, under "NO GUARANTEES"

What I want to say though is that I won't charge users for as long as the app lives, if the app dies for whatever reason I will try to inform users to export their data and find a better place I guess.

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