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Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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Any sort of git/GitHub integration features (or planned) ? Eg, I saw mention of code/theme editor, and working git into that would make some sense.

How would that Git implementation look to you?

I think most would expect to just have a remote Git repo where you can push your site to. That would then do a checkout on the web server automatically.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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The service itself is really cool and lines up nicely with the likes of Netlify and Github pages. I have two concerns though:

1) This doesn't seem to be connected to any major company, so how are you going to handle abuse of the service? With 'free hosting' offerings like this often comes a wave of abuse and malicious actors, so dealing with them is going to take significant resources.

2) How are you planning to monetize the service? Even though most sites hosted wont exceed a few kb, hosting fees will quickly add up, and unless you are using a cheap bare metal server you will likely face significant monthly bills.

These concerns aside, the service looks really awesome for most personal blog use cases, so congratulations to a successful launch!

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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post #32

The service itself is really cool and lines up nicely with the likes of Netlify and Github pages. I have two concerns though: 1) This doesn't seem to be connected to any major company, so how are you going to handle abuse of the service? With 'free hosting' offerings like this often comes a wave of abuse and malicious actors, so dealing with them is going to take significant resources. 2) How are you planning to mone…

1. For the past half year I’ve been moderating the site myself and also have automated filters I’ve coded. I’m recruiting some volunteer moderators soon! 2. 1MB was monetized in the past but got banned by our payment processor because they consider web hosting to be a risky business. It’s honestly my own fault I should’ve read the terms. 1MB will be monetized again soon when I implement a new payment processor: https://pro.1mb.site

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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post #15
post #7

Cool! But I can’t see anything on the site about who is behind this. Did I just miss it or is it missing? Especially when a service is free, I want to know a little about who I’m getting involved with. Edit: what’s the deal with the downvotes? It’s entirely reasonable to ask who is behind a service.

Hello my name is Dalton Edwards and I’ve been building this project for over half a year. I’m sorry I didn’t make that clearer (I do link to my personal site in the footer). I’ll write a bio about myself on the homepage.

Hello :) thanks. I’m excited by the project and I think transparency is important.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

#38
post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

That’s a good point - the attitude of “how is this any better than X, just use X” is one of the reasons why the web is so centralized.

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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post #24
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're welcome. While I have you: What itch lead you to build this? What did you draw inspiration from?

I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to simplify web development but none that do it how I wanted them to. I don’t want a drag-and-drop builder and I don’t want a command line only interface (although we offer one - the key is choices). I want to be able to easily code right inside my browser.

> I feel like there’s a lot of tools out there to [...] but none that do it how I wanted them to.

That’s as good a reason as any. Similar reasons to that are why there have been some large changes in the way people use computers at all.

Nice work and good luck

Re: Show HN: 1MB – Free and easy static website hosting and database

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post #12

I don't know why everyone is being so negative in the comments so far. It's really discouraging to other people who want to share something they made. It makes me sad. OP: This is cool. It's not meant to replace Netlify or GH Pages or a million other things, and I understand that. Some people just want to make something and you made something. You've done more than so many people here by just releasing something and…

I wouldn't mind if you pasted this at the top of every Show HN. On the other hand, sometimes it's useful to point out similar things that exist. Maybe the author actually didn't know about those things and would like to! Criticism always requires walking a fine line being constructive or being discouraging. It's even harder with strangers whose intentions and motivations you don't know!
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