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Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by tyroh »

maxwelldone wrote: post #16

Don't know if this qualifies as cool but I built a single purpose site to list IMDb ratings of all episodes of a TV show in a grid, which runs on GitHub Pages. It doesn't use any external APIs. https://theshowgrid.com I built it mainly for personal use. I know IMDb ratings aren't perfect but it's a decent measure of mass opinion.

awesome work! makes it easier to figure out what to watch first in a new series, and even if it's worth watching.

I also appreciate the snapiness due to not using external APIs.

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by yesenadam »

maxwelldone wrote: post #16

Don't know if this qualifies as cool but I built a single purpose site to list IMDb ratings of all episodes of a TV show in a grid, which runs on GitHub Pages. It doesn't use any external APIs. https://theshowgrid.com I built it mainly for personal use. I know IMDb ratings aren't perfect but it's a decent measure of mass opinion.

Super-cool, thank you! How else could I so quickly learn which e.g. South Park episodes to watch?!

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by yboris »

My commercial project Video Hub App is nearly free: https://videohubapp.com/

It's a Gatsby website and I used to use Vercel with their free deployments, but because I also needed a subdomain with PHP I switched to my cheap $3/month (unlimited website) webhost to serve the static files; but I also use Cloudflare for their free CDN. And the app demos are hosted on GitHub through Releases. The storefront is "free" through Chec.io in that I only pay a small fraction of every transaction.

Huge thank you to Vercel for making deploying Gatsby websites so easy (I run https://yboris.dev/ and https://yboris.com/ through them for free). Huge thank you to GitHub (I run https://income-inequality.info/ through it).

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by stoicjumbotron »

maxwelldone wrote: post #16

Don't know if this qualifies as cool but I built a single purpose site to list IMDb ratings of all episodes of a TV show in a grid, which runs on GitHub Pages. It doesn't use any external APIs. https://theshowgrid.com I built it mainly for personal use. I know IMDb ratings aren't perfect but it's a decent measure of mass opinion.

I saw the network tab while searching, and no API calls were made for searching. If possible can you elaborate on how you made the search like this possible?

Also loved the minimalist design and also how you can see your recently searched terms at the bottom.

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by cldellow »

orf wrote: post #21
cldellow wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's for get embed code. Could definitely have used Dynamo as a persistent layer, but the PNGs are transient - the definition is stored in a GitHub gist owned by the user (another free tier! :). But generating the PNGs is expensive, so they get cached in S3. An S3 lifecycle rule automatically prunes PNGs older than a month, and they'll get regenerated from the gist if needed.

A month seems like a long time, I’d have assumed you could probably delete 95% of the images within 3 days. Out of interest is the month long expire rule a guesstimate or something based on actual numbers?

It's just a number, I haven't looked at any request logs to see what hit rates are like.

From a money perspective, expiring them never would be fine, and a good trade off to get better latency on subsequent loads. However, if the underlying gist is deleted, I'd like the PNG to eventually go away.

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by snypher »

stoicjumbotron wrote: post #36
maxwelldone wrote: post #16

Don't know if this qualifies as cool but I built a single purpose site to list IMDb ratings of all episodes of a TV show in a grid, which runs on GitHub Pages. It doesn't use any external APIs. https://theshowgrid.com I built it mainly for personal use. I know IMDb ratings aren't perfect but it's a decent measure of mass opinion.

I saw the network tab while searching, and no API calls were made for searching. If possible can you elaborate on how you made the search like this possible? Also loved the minimalist design and also how you can see your recently searched terms at the bottom.

imdb.com/interfaces/ maybe.

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by sireat »

cldellow wrote: post #3

Sketchviz [1] runs almost entirely in free tiers from Cloudflare and AWS: - Cloudflare to avoid big bandwidth bills from AWS for the wasm-compiled graphviz that is on every page - AWS Lambda's 1M free requests and 400,000 GB-seconds for expressjs (web serving) and graphviz (rendering hostable .png images) - API Gateway's 1M free requests for routing HTTP -> AWS Lambda (for the app) or S3 (for hosted PNGs) - S3's 20K…

Super cool!

Curious does your implementation of DOT support embedding of images?

Theoretically it should be possible: http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/attrs.html#d:image

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