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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 — 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 – 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 – 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 — 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 it’s 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).
seaweedfs
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DwarFS – The Deduplicating Warp-Speed Advanced Read-Only File System
Whoops: WebDAV:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39417503
SeaweedFS supports WebDAV. https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/wiki/WebDAV
I'm not able to find if both/restic supports mounting backups as WebDAV, but in theory there's nothing stopping you.
It's 100% user space (expose a rest service) and supported by a bunch of file-browsers with a bit of a network aware component to it as well.
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Billion File Filesystem
If you want/need to take out the metadata, there's some nice solutions for that https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
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SeaweedFS fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files and datalake
I posted this on https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs/discussions/5290
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DuckDB + dbt for a serverless event correlation pipeline?
I like the idea of using SeaweedFS as an intermediate layer with object write notifications going to SQS, RabbitMQ, or a local file, which could also allow me to observe the changes to different files through a metric collection layer like Prometheus and Grafana.
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Show HN: OpenSign – The open source alternative to DocuSign
> Theoretically they could swap with minio but last time we used it it was not a drop-in replacement yet.
Depends on whether AGPL v3 works for you or not (or whether you decide to pay them), I guess: https://min.io/pricing
I've actually been looking for more open alternatives, but haven't found much.
Zenko CloudServer seemed to be somewhat promising, but doesn't seem to be managed very actively: https://github.com/scality/cloudserver/issues/4986 (their Docker images on DockerHub were last updated 10 months ago, which is what the homepage links to; blog doesn't seem active since 2019, forums don't have much going on, despite some action on GitHub still)
There was also Garage, but that one is also AGPL v3: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
The closest I got was discovering that SeaweedFS has an S3 compatible mode: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
- The Tailscale Universal Docker Mod
- SeaweedFS
- Google Cloud Storage FUSE
- Experience running rook-ceph in production/large clusters
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First Homelab as a 19yr old Software Developer
SeaweedFS S3 Gateway for Joplin notes
What are some alternatives?
Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure
socksifier - One DLL to redirect them all to a SOCKS5 server.
Ceph - Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
learn-anything.xyz - Organize world's knowledge, explore connections and curate learning paths
garage - (Mirror) S3-compatible object store for small self-hosted geo-distributed deployments. Main repo: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage
openmiko - Open source firmware for Ingenic T20 based devices such as WyzeCam V2, Xiaomi Xiaofang 1S, iSmartAlarm's Spot+ and others.
cubefs - cloud-native file store
sidebery - Firefox extension for managing tabs and bookmarks in sidebar.
GlusterFS - Web Content for gluster.org -- Deprecated as of September 2017
h264ify - A Chrome extension that makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos
MooseFS - MooseFS – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System (Software-Defined Storage)