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Re: Free for Developers

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I got a kick out of this list. Especially this sublist: > (note: You must pay if you use .casa, .cf, .click, .email, .fit, .ga, .gdn, .gq, .loan, .london, .men, .ml, .pl, .rest, .ru, .tk, .top, .work TLDs due to spam) Makes me want to search my spam folder for .gq out of curiosity alone.

What is wrong with these TLDs?

Re: Free for Developers

#62

Does anyone know of a decent tutorial for building low-volume / prototype interactive web applications using one of the major cloud-hosting providers, wholly within the free limits? Any framework would be interesting for learning purposes. I have some older MVC .NET sites and I poked around with Azure free Windows Server VMs, but the performance is so painfully bad; if you do anything, you run out of memory. But I'm…

What about ASP.NET + Azure? I'm still having wet dreams after using it on a pet project last year. Azure even has like one click deployment for it- super easy. Alternatively, Heroku is supposed to cater for this,or Elastic Beanstalk if you want to go AWS route.

Re: Free for Developers

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It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.[0] Refer also the law of unintended consequences. [1] Conveniently we have a natural experiment from a year or two ago we can refer to. Stellar Lumens offered some free cryptocurrency to existing users, via Keybase accounts that leveraged external auth-equivalence (such as HN). It backfired spectacularly for all involved. [2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.or…

Did the Stellar Lumens offer extend to brand new accounts?

Edit: Ah, I see, people tried to find dormant HN and GitHub accounts. https://www.coindesk.com/stellar-tried-to-give-away-2b-xlm-t...

Re: Free for Developers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev

We need more of these as wikis, or GH repos that use robots to accept PRs. Tried it and it didn’t work? PR. Found a new one and it’s not on already? PR. Also, it would be a really nice bonus if “date added” was generated from the git commit that added the resource.

That could be bad due to spam though

Specially if you auto deploy it too

Re: Free for Developers

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really impressed with Azure's new UI... its the little things like this that make me want to use it over GCP etc.

Second this. I'm kind of cloud virgin but navigating Azure is super easy. It's very logic,while GCP is..well.. it ain't YouTube tbh..

Re: Free for Developers

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Does anyone know of a decent tutorial for building low-volume / prototype interactive web applications using one of the major cloud-hosting providers, wholly within the free limits? Any framework would be interesting for learning purposes. I have some older MVC .NET sites and I poked around with Azure free Windows Server VMs, but the performance is so painfully bad; if you do anything, you run out of memory. But I'm…

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Re: Free for Developers

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Does anyone know of a decent tutorial for building low-volume / prototype interactive web applications using one of the major cloud-hosting providers, wholly within the free limits? Any framework would be interesting for learning purposes. I have some older MVC .NET sites and I poked around with Azure free Windows Server VMs, but the performance is so painfully bad; if you do anything, you run out of memory. But I'm…

I suspect that pretty normal development using Python, Node, or Go would fit free tiers of various AWS services, provided they are not serving a lot of requests.

Re: Free for Developers

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It would be neat if HN could offer something like "Login By Facebook" that returned user/create date/karma. Would make a nice testbed for offering free stuff while having some high pass filter like "HN account > 3 months old and has > 500 karma."

Sounds like this could lead to another Hacktoberfest situation where people just post low effort comments and posts on hackernews just so they can get over the threshold. And some people might even make tutorials.

Right. So it seems like if I were going to do it, it would have to be based on things that happened before any announcement. Like account age, comment/submission activity prior to announcement, etc.

Re: Free for Developers

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My 2 cents on this - I have used the Oracle Cloud free tier trying to get the VMs running. The default resource usage seems higher than what you would get on Hetzner/ionos/digital ocean and the resource monitors are a good chunk of that usage. Configuration was also considerably more difficult for someone with little experience such as myself... Achieving the same task (setting up a BookStackApp server) took considerably longer than it did on most services on which you pay.

What I'm trying to say is that you do get what you pay for (or don't).

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