ExtPay
Requestly
ExtPay | Requestly | |
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56 | 34 | |
430 | 1,758 | |
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3.9 | 9.8 | |
13 days ago | 5 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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ExtPay
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Ask HN: SQLite in Production?
I've been using SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com for about 3 years now! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's been great!
I was convinced that SQLite could be a viable db option from this great post about it called Consider SQLite: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
Using SQLite with Litestream helped me to launch the site quickly without having to pay for or configure/manage a db server, especially when I didn't know if the site would make any money and didn't have any personal experience with running production databases. Litestream streams to blackblaze b2 for literally $0 per month which is great. I already had a backblaze account for personal backups and it was easy to just add b2 storage. I've never had to restore from backup so far.
There's a pleasing operational simplicity in this setup β one $14 DigitalOcean droplet serves my entire app (single-threaded still!) and it's been easy to scale vertically by just upgrading the server to the next tier when I started pushing the limits of a droplet (or doing some obvious SQLite config optimizations). DigitalOcean's "premium" intel and amd droplets use NVMe drives which seem to be especially good with SQLite.
One downside of using SQLite is that there's just not as much community knowledge about using and tuning it for web applications. For example, I'm using it with SvelteKit and there's not much written online about deploying multi-threaded SvelteKit apps with SQLite. Also, not many example configs to learn from. By far the biggest performance improvement I found was turning on memory mapping for SQLite.
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 β Show and tell
I made a couple browser extensions that make over $500/month each. The key seems to be naming your extension after high-volume search terms and getting good reviews on the chrome store (and obviously having an extension that works well and solve a common problem on major websites). I monetized them with my own service, https://extensionpay.com. Feels so good to eat your own dog food :)
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Standard Ebooks Serves Requests per Month with a 2GB VPS (2022)
Neat! I'm serving around 120m requests per month for https://extensionpay.com from a 2GB VPS running a single-threaded nodejs process and SQLite as the db. Most of the requests are cached, but still, it's amazing how far you can get with cheap hardware.
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Litestream β Disaster recovery and continuous replication for SQLite
I use SQLite/Litestream for https://extensionpay.com! Serves about 120m requests per month (most of those are cached and don't hit the db), but it's been great!
I have no affiliation with Litestream but I was convinced that SQLite could be a viable db option from this great post about it called Consider SQLite: https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite
Using SQLite with Litestream helped me to launch the site quickly without having to pay for or configure/manage a db server, especially when I didn't know if the site would make any money and didn't have any personal experience with running production databases. Litestream streams to blackblaze b2 for literally $0 per month which is great. I already had a backblaze account for personal backups and it was easy to just add b2 storage. I've never had to restore from backup so far.
There's a pleasing operational simplicity in this setup β one $14 DigitalOcean droplet serves my entire app (single-threaded still!) and it's been easy to scale vertically by just upgrading the server to the next tier when I started pushing the limits of a droplet. DigitalOcean's "premium" intel and amd droplets use NVMe drives which seem to be especially good with SQLite.
One downside of using SQLite is that there's just not as much community knowledge about using and tuning it for web applications. For example, I'm using it with SvelteKit and there's not much written online about deploying multi-threaded SvelteKit apps with SQLite. Also, not many example configs to learn from. By far the biggest performance improvement I found was turning on memory mapping for SQLite.
Happy to answer any questions you might have!
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Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?
I made https://extensionpay.com to monetize my own browser extensions and between that and free distribution on the extension stores itβs really easy to try making extensions that make money. So far devs have made over $300k with ExtensionPay. That said, it still take some skill to find a niche that works.
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Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer
Just want to put a plug in for https://extensionpay.com/ - I've used it in extensions in the past. It takes away the headache of setting up a backend for payment. They do take an extra 5%, but it's worth it especially. for smaller projects
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Monetization Options
Have a go at looking at this: https://extensionpay.com,
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I Built Vim for Google Docs
That's fair. Right now my payment processor (ExtensionPay) doesn't support multiple pricing tiers. However, in the future I'm considering rolling out my own logic so that I can provide a lifetime license option for some users.
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My experience with the Chrome Extension review process
Oh nice! Maybe you'd be interested in the tool I built to take payments in extensions: https://extensionpay.com
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2! Authenticator: An extension to quickly view your 2-factor codes in Chrome.
If your concern is about security of the extension, you may right click on top of the extension's icon and select "Inspect popup". Select the "Network" tab and type CTRL-R to force a reload of the extension. Verify there are no external network requests (except to extensionpay.com for paid features).
Requestly
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π₯π₯ Our awesome OSS friends π
Requestly- Makes frontend development cycle 10x faster with API Client, Mock Server, Intercept & Modify HTTP Requests and Session Replays.
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Tell HN: The popular Chrome extension ModHeader is injecting ads into searches
[1]: https://github.com/requestly/requestly/
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Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks
If you want to intercept and modify a incoming json response for some specific url pattern, would a service worker be a good way to do so?
To illustrate, assume I frequently browse example.com and want to trick my browser into thinking that I have "favorited" every post. It's trivial to write a for loop that iterates over response.json and sets `is_favorite = true`. But it's not as clear to me where this script should ideally live in order to have the logic always executed before the response is made available to the site.
Your comment made me think about whether I can replace my overkill solution (https://requestly.io/) with something lightweight.
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Way or viewing network requests?
If you prefer open-source there is Requestly and Toolkit.
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Is it a viable option to use a database to populate data used in a chrome extension?
If you don't know Requestly, It is an open-source Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension to intercept & modify HTTP requests & responses. One of the popular features is to modify HTTP headers. We also offer workspaces for easy collaboration between team members.
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Open-Source alternative to Charles Proxy & Telerik Fiddler
Hey, open-source community, This is Sachin, One of the core maintainers of Requestly - An open-source alternative to Charles Proxy & Telerik Fiddler. In case you donβt know about Charles Proxy & Fiddler, both of them are two decades-old products used widely to Inspect & Modify HTTP traffic in web & mobile apps.
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All browsers - is it possible to replace specific image url with another?
In /etc/hosts file you put only IP addresses and hostnames, i.e. 127.0.0.1 cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com. Then you have to set up a web server on localhost port 80 and put your image at http://localhost/steamcommunity/public/images/apps/753/1d0167575d746dadea7706685c0f3c01c8aeb6d8.jpg as well as other files from https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com. You also have to keep the URLs updated when they change upstream. It's not worth it. Better use a local proxy server like mitmproxy or requestly.
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Userscripts: Is there a way to intercept all HTTP requests/responses so that I can modify them before they're sent/received?
Requestly founder here. You are essentially looking for Requestly - A Chrome/Firefox browser extension to Intercept & Modify HTTP requests. Using Requestly you can actually do the following things
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Software Developer Mac Apps
For development/Debugging: 1. VSCode - Got used to the key bindings and integrated terminal, so now it's really hard to switch 2. Requestly - For easily setting up local debugging environments. I am less of a UI guy, so this allows me to use the live UI of a deployed site, and redirect whichever request I want to play with to my local server. 3. Wireshark - To better understand a network protocol.
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General discussion thread
[0]: https://requestly.io
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