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Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices by 0x000042 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:19AM (#38624692)
> OpenCollective says that the total donations are $1,107.75 USD with 6 contributors. I threw another 20 bucks at them after reading that, but it seems like at least ads or something would make sense purely from a financial perspective, since even with 8M impressions, not that many are interested in donating sadly.

What are the operational costs of running such a site?

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Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices by captn3m0 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:44AM (#38624891)
Currently none, but that's mostly because we've worked hard to keep it that way. I publish finance updates on a GitHub Discussion (https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...). We used to pay $9/mo for Netlify Analytics but didn't find it helpful.

We're looking to join OpenEoX.org to standardize EoL information publication, but that requires a lot more funds (https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/discussions...).

We also have a pretty long roadmap (https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/2108) that focuses on integrating better with the sbom ecosystem (We want to make an API that does SBOM->EOL alerts for eg). Such projects require a lot of development effort, and we'd like to be able to sponsor it on our own (via grants/donations).

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Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:07AM (#38629419)
> We want to make an API that does SBOM->EOL alerts for eg

You could consider making more expensive features paid options? Definitely tradeoffs there but it is an option, especially for business-useful features

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Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices by teepo on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:08PM (#38631503)
This is a great idea. Hopefully this gets more attention and resources. You're really well positioned to fill a gap in the ecosystem.
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Re:End of Life of Technologies and Devices by midasuni on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:45AM (#38624899)
Setting aside a HN spike, $100 a year should be fine for hosting. Or use someone else’s hosting platform like GitHub, cloudflare etc for the cost of a domain name.
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