Was pretty surprised that it cost you almost 250$ for a month to run this. Perhaps you could have tried hosting elsewhere. For eg. this would be easily acoomodated in AWS free tier I think. Could have given you a longer runway to iterate. Anyway, cool idea. Few hundred visitors a day is not bad!
I'm pretty surprised as well. It's basically a simple CRUD app. I think that a single digital ocean box could have done the trick.
Especially when the website does not work (I have an SSL error, see my other reply above).
True, I should have perhaps looked at cheaper options. Dynos were cheaper on most months, that example was the 'worst' month. The wildcard SSL certificate for subdomains was a bit expensive.
I really dig the idea behind the site. I am not a UX developer, but I am improving and the service would be invaluable. What can we do to help get the iteration back in place?
I assume the reason for not going with DO, Linode or AWS was you're not a devOps guy, which is understandable. We can help you with that.
Hey man if you sign up for Cloudflare you can get SSL for free. Plus a lot of other goodies. If you need help with setting up a Digital Ocean box with Phusion Passenger, Capistrano, Ruby, let me know.
I remember scanning your site when it was on the front page a few weeks ago. It just looked like a checklist to me. I wouldn't have thought you could charge for it. Perhaps the idea was just a bit too static to be able to turn into an app and charge for?
Would you consider open-sourcing your work now that it's no longer live?
Good idea!
"monthly costs of running the service" was your killing argument. Why didn't you migrate to a cheap hosting ? My single host at scaleway (3.59€ per month) can handle many toy projects and gives me all freedom.
Scaleway seem to be out of stock now, for a few months already. They don't accept new customers
I find Scaleway tricky when deploying apps since it is ARM - the price is kick ass, but I wasnt able to go around limitations with my Python apps. Do you ever run in to issues like that? How is uptime?
Or OVH, where ~$4/mo gets you a VPS with 2GB of RAM.
Please don't do that with drop shadows. The combination of the non-3d image and the 3d drop shadow makes for a really disconcerting distortion effect. Are the corners of the image curled up or not? A simple 2-3 px drop shadow on the right and bottom edges would look much better imo.
Would you sell it? Email me hirowatari [at] gmail
I get a "Secure Connection Failed" on Firefox/Chrome when trying to access the userium.com website: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
It's no longer live on that domain. I should have maybe titled my post 'post-mortem of a side project'? :)
The checklist is nowadays here: https://stayintech.com/info/UX and the Wayback machine holds a copy of the old website.