Earlier quoted context omitted.
who did the design for the website?
It's me, still a one man show :)
Maybe you would need help later. At some point. I can help.
Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
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Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
#52I would reconsider the "Unlimited Emails" offering for the "Ultimate" $100/mo plan. Assuming you're using SES, a customer sending 1,065,000 emails would cost ~$100. All it takes is one person to abuse it before it's costing you big money. On the surface, "Unlimited" sounds great, but your target market is developers that know the cost of sending emails. This may result in the opposite effect as it signals your model…
The even greater problem with sending email is that your platform will immediately and comprehensively be abused by spammers. To make your email woes go away, I would recommend using MailChannels [1] rather than SES or SendGrid because MailChannels has a built-in anti-abuse layer that will send you a webhook whenever a bad user is detected. SES will just terminate your account, which probably isn't what you want. Als…
not just emailing. any service that could theoretically be utilized by spammers/scammers will be. (Source: my own SaaS)
Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
#53This looks awesome! What backend framework are you using? I'm the author Lucky and was wondering if you happened to use it on the backend since you are using Crystal
Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
#54Looks great, but I have been bitten badly before by vendor lock-in using a SaaS and they either go out of business or jack up their prices exponentially. The only mitigation I know of is to make Base open source, so if needed users can host their own instance. What are your thoughts on this?
Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
#55Re: Show HN: Base – API for authentication, email sending, images and more
#56Interesting that you've made it using https://crystal-lang.org/ https://www.mint-lang.com/ How did you decide to use these framework and how was your experience ?
I'm the author of Mint, so it was the obvious choice :) I choose Crystal because I had experience using Ruby and I absolutely loved the syntax, also Mint is built with Crystal. I really like it because it easy to read (even with type annotations) and compiles to a fast binary. Edit: If you have specific questions let me have it :D
One interesting aspect is that it takes a lot of energy building the whole compile-to-js frontend framework, yet you are also building your own service. Kudos!
I'm using Elixir and Elm, and understand why Mint happens. I'm keeping eyes on Mint, would love see a build-with-Mint page. This app is the first one!