victroladixit

Ask HN: $5/mo VPS pay crypto for postage Rails app

Posted by victroladixit on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:53AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking for advice. My app, at https://coinship.pro, takes crypto for USPS (soon worldwide) shipping, via 3rd party API at http://goshippo.com.Can you recommend features the app needs? I'm also interested in partnering with a marketing specialist, and possibly another developer, if you want to work on the app significantly. The Shippo API has dozens of carriers worldwide. It has no revenue...

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Re:Tell HN: I built a $5/mo JavaScript-free Rails app on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @10:47PM (#29170851)

I had to recompile assets and the site was running at up to 20rpm, and it stalled. Back online now. The navbar prices are updated every 3 minutes, which takes 2s, and caches are 50ms until the update. I want to put the updates in a background job, but it isn't crucial yet.

Tell HN: I built a $5/mo JavaScript-free Rails app

Posted by victroladixit on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:42PM
from the self-post dept.

I'm happy about an app I've been working on for over a year. I'm still wrangling with the 'cookies.js' file placed on the client, with a session id, otherwise it's free of any javascript. I hadn't used Redis in the past, had been content with sub-second page loads. Now I'm getting unbelievable (to me) results under 50ms for most pages, except 3rd party API calls for coin prices and service...

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