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Nice concept. I really liked your About in footer where you have thoughtfully explained your vision of the product. I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/ I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.
Nice concept. I really liked your About in footer where you have thoughtfully explained your vision of the product. I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/ I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.
Hey, I came across yours. It's got a lot of features. How is traction going?
About the traction, getting users has been hard. I made some mistakes in the beginning, I targeted the wrong audience. I got wrong feedback from family, friends, co-workers etc. Then I started cold messaging readers and writers on other writing platforms.
From the feedback I gathered 60% of the users asked for an app. They would like to read on mobile. The website is mobile friendly but still they want an app.
For writers mostly the feedback was that they don't want to create stories on website which is not popular. There are plenty of other places where they would write where they can get more visibility.
Its kind of chicken and egg problem. Still I cold messaged a lot of users through social media and got some users and stories.
This is my first side project so I am learning and having fun. :)
Is the site very slow for everyone? Normally it's very fast for me but suddenly it's slow.
For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want.
This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does and check it out later when not as many people are present on the server. This is a concept known as graceful degradation, trying to make a service as accessible as possible during most if not all conceivable situations.
Ah, the ol' HN hug of death. For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want. This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does a…
Is the site very slow for everyone? Normally it's very fast for me but suddenly it's slow.
I tried to scale up my servers and I think I crashed everything... :( My provider made it seem easier than it was. If anyone knows about scaling up servers, please lmk.
Nice concept. I really liked your About in footer where you have thoughtfully explained your vision of the product. I also made a similar side project during quarantine: https://messagink.com/ I thought there should be a place to archive, discover create interesting conversations or create fictional conversations (text stories) since most app around this space don't let you and are too expensive.
Ah, the ol' HN hug of death. For future reference (and I haven't been able to access the site yet, so this may or may not be relevant to Taaalk), if the site has a landing page, make it with static files, and put it behind a CDN or just use a free service like Netlify. Put the actual app behind a subdomain which you can then host however you want. This way, people who visit can still check out what the service does a…
Hey, I tried to scale up my server mid hn ride and now I'm just getting a 404. I'm not experienced with doing this, and I can log into the server and everything seems to be working/up to date. So I don't understand why it's not working. I'm using a Hetzner, and I'm bummed :(
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I tried to scale up my servers and I think I crashed everything... :( My provider made it seem easier than it was. If anyone knows about scaling up servers, please lmk.
How is it going? Which hosting provider?
They have a 'Rescale' option which I used. To activate it I had to turn off my server. I did that. Then rescaled and it went on again.
When I log into my server or run 'git push dokku master' everything seems the same/is up to date. But getting a 404 for the entire app. Server logs seem to be ok (found with dokku logs taaalk -t). So I'm just very confused and very sad.
The server still has the same IP address.
It is also saying:
server.request_console taaalk taaalk Joshua Summers 8 minutes ago
server.request_console taaalk taaalk Joshua Summers 18 minutes ago
server.change_type taaalk taaalk Joshua Summers 37 minutes ago
server.stop taaalk taaalk Joshua Summers 39 minutes ago
server.request_console taaalk taaalk Joshua Summers 2 months ago
This server.request_console is new...