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Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by btilly »

necovek wrote: post #80
redox99 wrote: post #37

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It's weird you show the price in some currency I don't even know what it is (even if it says 10 dollars small next to it). Just show and charge 10 USD. You can localize that other currency (Rubles?) if GeoIP matches.

It's possible the local legislation disallows charging in non-local currency. Eg. can you charge in rubles in USA?

The problem with charging in rubles in the USA isn't the currency, it is that a person who transacts in rubles likely lives in Russia. And, thanks to the Ukraine invasion, the USA has sanctions that make paying someone in Russia rather difficult.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by dewey »

chii wrote: post #128
dewey wrote: post #112

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In my opinion that's not good advice. Over the past 11 years this domain already built up some domain reputation and incoming links. Changing the domain for no good reason won't help with people understanding the use case of the site. The domain doesn't really matter so much as you can see with "replit.com", "chatgpt.com" or "stripe.com" which don't explain anything either. If you want to invest time I'd suggest: - C…

i read the parent post's advice as duplicating, rather than changing - e.g., you keep the existing domain, but also the exact same app is available from those other domains. But you're not wrong - i dont think the domain has a big effect, and personally i'd rather save $10.

That’s duplicate content and Google doesn’t like that. You can set the canonical url etc. but in the end the URLs will not make the difference between a user understanding the interface or not.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by RamblingCTO »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #105
knowitnone3 wrote: post #104

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As a rabbit, I'd rather carrots... Isn't this comment a form of Brit defaultism?

My point was more about the original comment is fine from the perspective of an American, but for the rest of the world, it doesn’t really matter if it is USD or rubles - it’s still a foreign transaction. I appreciate that for a large percentage of the world, consumers can probably do an approximation of the USD conversion in their head, and not a rubles one, and therefore, USD may be more friendly. That being said,…

That implies that all currencies have the same connotation. USD/Pounds/Euros seems much more not scammy to me tha baht or rubles. Especially the latter ones would prevent me from paying in that. Russia is a scam nation.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by bilekas »

> The server is unavailable, contact your network administrator. Please try again in a few minutes.

Also where is it based ? And your payment processor ?

I like to support learning platforms like this financially, when they work of course, but that's going to be a problem if you're based in Russia.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by n4bz0r »

dewey wrote: post #133
chii wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i read the parent post's advice as duplicating, rather than changing - e.g., you keep the existing domain, but also the exact same app is available from those other domains. But you're not wrong - i dont think the domain has a big effect, and personally i'd rather save $10.

That’s duplicate content and Google doesn’t like that. You can set the canonical url etc. but in the end the URLs will not make the difference between a user understanding the interface or not.

You simply use 301 redirects on the secondary domain(s).

You can also use secondary domains for landing pages. But that's probably out of pet projects' scope.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by foofoo12 »

It might be a good idea to not attempt an WebRTC connection right away. Since you're only using it for collaboration, there's no need to connect right away.

Privacy minded users might have it disabled by default since it's a good fingerprinting source.

Currently the website doesn't load if WebRTC is disabled.

Re: Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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Post by nasmorn »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #105
knowitnone3 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a rabbit, I'd rather carrots... Isn't this comment a form of Brit defaultism?

My point was more about the original comment is fine from the perspective of an American, but for the rest of the world, it doesn’t really matter if it is USD or rubles - it’s still a foreign transaction. I appreciate that for a large percentage of the world, consumers can probably do an approximation of the USD conversion in their head, and not a rubles one, and therefore, USD may be more friendly. That being said,…

USD and rubles are definitely not the same from my euro using perspective.
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