>CHEAPASS: $5 Per Year. 1 GB What does 1 GB mean? Is that bandwidth or storage? And if it's bandwidth, what happens if I go over that amount?
It's storage.
Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host
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#112A no BS image host would: 1 - be free 2 - require no login or javascript 3 - give you direct links, without ads or tracking This site fails at least the first two tests. There used to be sites that passed all of these, and really were no BS image hosts. Sadly, I haven't seen one in many years. Now pretty much all of them at least require logins or javascript.
Why "be free"? Why not "pay you"? I mean, where do you draw the line?
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#113Nice. Imgur is dead now that it requires login for every image it perceives to be 'explicit' (as if its goal is to protect the children rather than harvest their data)
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#114Nice work! I appreciate your tone, the project, and everything. Heck, I appreciate you man. (Subscribing now...) Also this is a great idea and really needed. It’s amazing that something so simple is hard to implement without the shady factor. Resist the temptation to grow and take VC and do all those things that will sour your soul.
Also nobody is going to offer me VC money for a weekend project, so you're safe!
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#115Did you talk to NCMEC pre-launch about strategies for matching uploaded images against a blacklist?
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#116Can you walk through how you're managing storage of these photos? I've thought about doing something similar, but VPS like DO have very little HDD space. And Amazon S3 is massively expensive. How are you handling the dollar expense vs storage capacity?
I'm sticking them all in a Postgres database with CloudFlare in front as a caching proxy. Hetzner gives me 3 TB of bandwidth per month, so I expect that to last me a long time.
If CloudFlare hates my usage and I get enough users to make $50/mo, I'll buy a dedicated Hetzner server which comes with a 3 Gbit connection, which will hopefully mean that bandwidth still isn't a problem (or just pay CloudFlare).
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup; don't mind a little informality, but all this shit and asses and fucks are trying too hard, don't really want to give my money to a project that markets itself as this hypercool.
Oof, man, tough crowd. There are 3 instances of "shit", 2 of "bullshit", 1 "cheapass" and 1 "fuck" in the public pages. This would qualify as PG if it were a movie. I mean, you like what you like, but how much cussing is "just enough" for you?
Exactly 1 swear feels indie and charming. More than that feels like trying.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. There are children and peo…
> If you're paying for something, the concept of an "account" has to exist in order to record the payment against. If you're paying for something, that generally transfers a chunk of personal information for anti-fraud purposes. Given that, an email is not a huge ask, and is very useful for e.g. billing reminders. It doesn't have to be a spam thing and GDPR is gradually cracking down on that. Now that makes little se…
> The more you have free tier users, the more users convert to paying and the more sustainable the service becomes.
Citation needed.
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#119I love the small detail that "Buying the site" is recommended as "Our Choice". Hilarious copywriting.
Thank you! Still waiting for takers, though, so it must not be very effective.
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#120In the Terms and Conditions[1]: "It's mysterious and alluring, and maybe it slaps you a bit from time to time, but it doesn't really mean it, deep down you know it loves you and if only you weren't such an annoying user, it wouldn't have to do that." This is a joke about physically abusive relationships. I found the rest of the irreverent tone funny, but then this made me sad. [1] https://imgz.org/help/terms/
I found the rest of the irreverent tone funny too. I also found the joke that alludes to domestic violence funny.