Re:Show HN: JustComments – a comment system for websites
by EmilBruckner on Thursday May 17, 2018 @07:38AM
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If you match the pricing almost 1:1 / don't really make a profit, why don't you open-source it?
Or do you actually make quite some profit by people who pay but don't really use their credits?
Just being curious about your plans
Re:Show HN: JustComments – a comment system for websites
by orkon on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:50PM
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I match the model, not the price. I don't think you can make a profit from people who pay and don't use. Such people typically don't subscribe.
Generally, the project is none-free and low-margin and that is what makes it interesting. There are plenty of dead and alive open source projects offering comments which you can use.
The tech is completely hosted on AWS, and it is entirely "serverless". So the core is using the API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB. Additionally, I use Kinesis Firehose + S3 to process internally generated data such as billing events. Athena helps me to query the data if needed.
Basically, the scalability & high availability is entirely provided by AWS and the pricing model matches almost 1-to-1 the pricing by AWS.
If you have any specific questions about the tech, I can answer them.