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

#231

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Worth telling people that a $5 a month is coming soon. Collect their email addresses. Also the "no one can predict the future" is a bit scary so another thing is to promise you can get your data out as a static site for netlify, github etc. at any time.

Hit the subscribe to newsletter button in account settings I’m sending out an announcement when monthly pricing launches.

Thanks. But: I am suggesting you add clarity for other visitors to your site so you don't lose them because they think $100 and "it might disappear next year + tough shit no refund" is the only option.

By the way your offering fills a certain niche that I am interested in. That is the niche where a technical person like myself wants to design a site using HTML & CSS in text editor (how else would you do it!) but there is another nontechnical person who wants a nicer editor to edit the content. In addition I want a fast and cheap CDN type of offering. Netlify is what I use now, but it means I have to make the wording changes which sucks.

I imagine this is a common situation for small time website developers. For example if I make a site for the local pizza delivery, they might need to change their menu, but it is good if they can do it directly. But I like to host it as a static site so I know it is less likely to get hacked or be slow, and I can back it up more easily (looking at you Wordpress+MySQL+Bunch of PHP files called plugins).

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

#235

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> software "engineers" The quotes aren't necessary. They definitely have a few good software engineers, and this issue definitely isn't a technical one.

Sorry, that's just personal pet peeve. I like to take a dig at software programmers who call themselves software engineers.

I also notice the inflation of laissez-faire self titling but it usually doesn't bother me. Just the other day I met a flying machine service worker who proudly introduced himself as a copilot. Our train handling ancestry are locomoting over in their repositories about this!

Edit: it looks like these carcas pits are all calling themselves graves now ;-)

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

#236

Three suggestions: 1. please dont have "forever" pricing. i would rather pay a higher fee monthly. 2. please have tiers according to size and bandwidth requirements 3. Instead of creating your own cli, etc. Could you integrate with Gatsbyjs ? In fact, your killer feature could be a wysiwyg editor for Gatsby I would strongly prefer an open standard like Graphql over a custom nosql you have. You can implement it at you…

> please dont have "forever" pricing. i would rather pay a higher fee monthly. Well, I would disagree. Forever pricing would be awesome.

I've gotten forever accounts with shodan and a very popular vpn service, I was half expecting the service quality to at least diminish after a year or two around the positive return mark but didn't happen. They've outperformed my expectations dramatically.

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

#238
I tried using this today. I couldn't find a way to rename the site I signed up for; I didn't make the connection that the username would be the URL/site name. I also couldn't delete my primary site to create a replacement, so I had to close my account just to create a site with a new name. Just thought I'd let y'all know a minor inconvenience I ran into.

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

#239

I tried using this today. I couldn't find a way to rename the site I signed up for; I didn't make the connection that the username would be the URL/site name. I also couldn't delete my primary site to create a replacement, so I had to close my account just to create a site with a new name. Just thought I'd let y'all know a minor inconvenience I ran into.

I’ll make it more obvious on registration that the name can’t be changed :) I’m sorry about that. I’d add a username change option but it would actually require a lot of updates to the backend

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

#240

I have been looking for something like this! My use case is a minimal CMS back-end and admin interface. Basically adding some dynamic content to a otherwise static site that the user(s) can change themselves. The 1mb site would be an admin interface for changing the content in the DB, the 1mb DB serving the content to the front-end hosted elsewhere. I'll have to try this out. Very cool.

Thank you! :) I hope you like 1MB
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