Wow!! This is an amazing list.
A lot of times we aren't event aware that there exists a tool which can solve your need. And Google is of no help here.
Free for Developers
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#42Please point it out if I've missed it, but any list like this, of information that is changeable, should really have a publicly posted date of when the information was last confirmed.
Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
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#44It 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."
I'm the only developer out of all of my colleagues that even knows what HN even _is_.
It's simultaneously surprising and yet also not surprising how niche HN really is.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is my common issue with "free" services. It's free, but you have to input your credit card. Ah and also, if your website blows up, such as from being top 10 on HNews, you'll have to pay, but don't worry about that now.
One trick I have used to overcome this is to use a virtual card service. If you have a Capital One card, you get this for free (download "Capital One Eno" extension), but there is also Privacy.com which does the same thing linked to any bank account. So when someone needs a credit card, I will generate a virtual card (right inside the browser plugin, its really slick and easy) for that website. They will verify the c…
I don’t think that having an invalid c/c absolves you from debts accrued when using services that have traffic thresholds for switching between free and for pay.
This is definitely a limiter for me when signing up for these free sites: it usually is couched with language along the lines of you don’t want your business to be impacted by us turning off your service, but I am not joining as a business, I am joining as a “I am a developer investigating if this is worth it for my business”
I would prefer plans along the lines of “pay us $10 to activate, if you go over traffic we cut you off but guarantee no other charges, if you leave we refund your $10 no questions asked” or “no charge upfront, if you go over the free tier we charge up to $10 once only and then cut you off”
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#46Anyone on here make use of the free tier of any of these?
While I've known of some of the free tier things on AWS, and Google Cloud, I never made use of them long term.
Re: Free for Developers
#47Please point it out if I've missed it, but any list like this, of information that is changeable, should really have a publicly posted date of when the information was last confirmed.
Indeed. They rapidly go stale. Many of these lists are out-of-date by the time anyone finds them.
Maybe it's different for services, but lists of software often list projects that aren't maintained.
I've never found anything useful from any of these lists. What I do find useful is people on HN talking about what software/services they use.
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#48The first hit is always "free". As in "free puppy", not "free beer".
I love your “free as in free puppy” line. I will have to use it myself in the future.
Just remember that the expensive puppy isn't house trained either when you get it, and it will need just as much attention and eat just as much food as the free puppy.
I'm saying this as someone who knows way too much about Oracle databases ;-)
Choose a "puppy" you can love. Get it from someone you trust and get one that's right for your situation.
Re: Free for Developers
#49It 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."
Absolutely not, there are already people on HN pandering to the crowd just to get karma points, let's not make karma points more meaningless than they already are. This suggestion is so rich coming from someone with 34,500 karma points.
"This suggestion is so rich coming from someone..."
Meh. I made up a threshold I thought might keep abuse of a free service down for a testbed. I picked 500 since I thought that was the HN threshold for downvote ability. Sure seems to have stirred up the crowd though :)
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
One trick I have used to overcome this is to use a virtual card service. If you have a Capital One card, you get this for free (download "Capital One Eno" extension), but there is also Privacy.com which does the same thing linked to any bank account. So when someone needs a credit card, I will generate a virtual card (right inside the browser plugin, its really slick and easy) for that website. They will verify the c…
> If anyone knows of other ways to create virtual cards, please let me know. To extend the plea, if anyone knows how to do this in Canada, I’d love to know. As far as I know the services that exist are USA only.
Might be because of clamped regulations[0] - most of these third-party virtual card issuers, including privacy, make money from interchange fees, but when those are reduced (for good reason) it becomes less profitable to support that country.
However, one service that is doing this is Revolut which has a private beta for Canadian users and will provide virtual cards[1,2].
0: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-09/visa-mast...
1: https://www.revolut.com/en-CA
2: https://www.revolut.com/en-CA/legal/premium-fees#card:~:text...