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Comment by smt88 | Hacker News Reader

Congrats on the launch! This looks like it could be very useful.

I'd suggest changing your post title, though. When I use something that has sensitive financial data and a payment feature, I want to feel very confident. The title makes it seem like the company (or product) has had lots of ups and downs, which makes me nervous to use it until I find out that it's actually a reference to personal issues.

Maybe something like this would be better? "Show HN: Spent a year building a better invoicing API"

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Agree, my first thought was “an invoicing platform that has had problems sounds like something I want to avoid…”

And even though it’s about the rough year you’ve had from a personal perspective it highlights the fact that you are a sole developer and that your personal ups and downs got in the way of the product - which makes me cautious about long term viability.

Yeah in hindsight that wasn't a good title I guess I wanted to give the post a more personable feel.

Indeed I'm a solo dev on this project but it's here to stay.

Thanks for checking it out!

Hey, that's a very fair point. I was referencing my personal situation and not the project. I've gone ahead and updated the post. The project is definitely here to stay. Even through the toughest times in my life I managed to release so it's only up from here.

Looks like the server is getting hugged to death. Not good either.

Seems to be ok on my side but indeed the analytics show far more traffic than what I expected.

Host your static site and assets on a dedicated static host, like Netlify, or put a CDN like Cloudflare in front of it as a cache. It's not particularly expensive. There's no reason to wonder if your static site is overloaded these days.

Well, the homepage is up and it’s effing beautiful bro. Good on you. Man looks great.

Thanks so much. I appreciate it!

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