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Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by arihant »

Fairly disappointing list. No GC in hosting list, even with generous free tier on App Engine, Firebase and other services. No DigitalOcean. No Azure. On e-mail front, no SendGrid and Mailgun, even with their generous free tiers. No Cloudflare. CI as category is ignored. 1&1 makes it, but GoDaddy, Gandi, and others don't.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by dublinben »

sampl wrote: post #15
koolba wrote: post #8

It's impressive that only a quarter of the links are affiliate links.

Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them. Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).

Judging by the rest of the comments in this discussion, there are some very notable oversights missing from this list. It's not unlikely that is caused by a lack of referral program from those providers.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by mxstbr »

I feel like Sentry[0] should be on the error tracking list, it's an amazing product that's fully open source so you can host it yourself if you're concerned about privacy or throw some money at the stellar team behind it to have them host it for you!

[0]: https://sentry.io

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by koolba »

sampl wrote: post #15
koolba wrote: post #8

It's impressive that only a quarter of the links are affiliate links.

Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them. Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).

> Could someone explain the hate for affiliate links? Maybe I'm just being naive, but as long as there's no suspicion of ratings bias, I'm fine with them.

> Ex: I've used thewirecutter.com recommendations for home supplies--and I'm happy to give the creators a kickback for their effort (at no cost to me).

Wirecutter is an example of affiliate links working well. The site itself adds value by providing deep reviews of each product set and presents options, even at different price points.

The vast majority of sites that include affiliate links are nothing more than listicles with the bare min amount of content to get included in search engine indexes.

They're also notorious for not being maintained so whatever the "best, more curated, bespoke, ..." content was of 201X becomes the only recommendation ever presented.

Re: Deploystack – Curated list of best tools for launching your website

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Post by latch »

porker wrote: post #11
GordonS wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are no advertisements But some of the links are affiliate links. I don't have a problem with this, but if you're going to make a big deal about not having ads or sponsorship, then I think you should have mentioned this too.

And do the gentleman's thing of indicating affiliate links by appending a * or other symbol. Transparency is good, even if the laws in your part of the world don't require it.

I think it's good enough that they recommended a number of options without an affiliate program. Intentions pass my bar of nobleness.
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