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Actually should have clarified, I meant submissions not general posts. I just searched their profile's submissions and found seven mentioning proxybase. I actually didn't check their comments.
Is this your service? Since you've made seven posts to HN about it and also your username shows up in the commits on their GitHub.
Because I'm quite curious on where the IPs are from. Usually residential IPs is a fancy wording for malware infested devices from regular people.
They actually already have that!
You can find it at Security > Bots > Block AI Bots
That is correct, incoming traffic is still free
Stripe is a payment processor which basically means they process the payments for you, so you do have to figure out the tax part yourself (or use their tax product, but you're still the one responsible for it.)
Lemon Squeezy is a merchant of record which means _they_ act as the merchant and sell the product to your customer. So they'll collect VAT and make sure it lands in the pockets of the right country etc. and will pay you only the remainder (minus their cut).
Since Lemon Squeezy uses Stripe under the hood as their payment processor you had to basically pay a cut to two companies if you used Lemon Squeezy but in exchange you literally have to worry about nothing. You just get a nice B2B reverse invoice and don't have to break your head around world wide (and especially EU) tax laws.
I really hope Stripe will double down on the whole MoR thing, it makes processing payments online so much nicer and less annoying.
If I remember correctly they changed their policy quite some time ago and started to ignore the robots.txt, but not 100% sure about it
If I'm not mistaken then this refers to transactions done using Shop Pay which will "remove carbon from the air".
Same here. I’ve been a happy customer for 2 years now after I switched over from mailbox.org
The webinterface looks like it could use some fresh paint but everything else is top notch. Also never had any issues regarding email reputation.
Thanks for the post! Really liked it being short and precise to the point.
Also looking to integrate the new function feature and now already got some learnings out of the post without even starting to code.
I have fiber in my apartment and I’m getting 900/700 on average.
Amsterdam, Netherlands for 35 euros per month.
We're sharing the same fate apparently! Just added a PR to their repository to add some feeds, hope it gets merged soon.
This one had me thinking really hard, good one.
I think the 2FA feature is only available if you have their subscription which is kinda cheap to be fair.
Or alternatively you can host VaultWarden and get it for “free”.
Yes, either this one or in my case, I'm just using Tailscale to get into one network with my NAS without having my NAS to be exposed to the internet.
So instead of opening ports and stuff like that, I can just securely go to https://mynas:12345/ (port of my paperless instance) and I'm in there.
Can only recommend this way.
I'm running paperless-ng on my Synology NAS and I love it. I've additionally bought myself a Brother DS-640 scanner to get good scans also on the go and it works like a charm for the last few months.
Also because it's running on my NAS, it's automatically reachable via Tailscale from all my devices and gets encrypted + uploaded to Backblaze B2 once a week via HyperBackup. Setting all of this up took less than one hour.
RedwoodJS may be something you want to check out.
Nice work, Alex! Really like the simple design, but do I need to directly pay to sign up and check how it works or is there a trial?
I can only speak for Germany and from my experience. Their argument was that you only have „one“ customer and therefor should be employed by, in this case, Paddle.
Edit: Should mention it was for a kind of SaaS, the case may be different if you sell physical products online.
We have a saying in Germany for this called „Wo kein Kläger, da kein Richter“ roughly translated „no plaintiff, no judge“. I think it highly depends on how much you’re actually selling, if you’re only within the free limits or just marginal above I’d say nobody cares (for the EU at least).
I’d not recommend it because the tax office knows no mercy, better to go with a merchant of record.
I’ve used Stripe in the past and it was a joy to use. Used it for an simple online shop selling shirts.
In my case I only sold to one country within the EU which is my home country and therefore I didn’t have any problems with EU taxes and stuff like that. If you plan to sell in the EU from outside or to multiple EU countries I’d strongly recommend a merchant of record.
The most known I think is Paddle, as also mentioned in this thread. But their pricing is hidden deep inside their ToS and in general you don’t get that many information just from the website, best to contact their sales department and check with them if they would like to onboard you. But it’s definitely more expensive than Stripe for fees but in my opinion you’ll save that money in accounting as you only get one invoice per month and don’t have to worry about taxes in X countries.
Also a small tip, check if your country has laws on “fake self-employment” (Scheinselbständigkeit in German) because I know for a fact that some (at least German) finance authorities don’t understand how a merchant of record works because even though you have multiple customers, on the paper you only have one, Paddle.
If you like Open Source, I’ve been using Responsively which seems to be roughly the same but without any monthly subscription.
Been using them for nearly two years now. I’m on the 2,50€ plan, which I think is now legacy and was upped to 3€, because that’s the cheapest plan which supports own domains.
They offer a bunch of extra stuff like cloud, video conferencing, calendar etc. but I’ve never touched it.
In my opinion the interface is terrible and the settings are not so user friendly, in the settings menu is a kinda sub-settings menu which seems to be embedded from a subsystem…? But if you’ve got everything setup and provided you’re using your own email client, the service is top notch.
Never had a problem, maintenance and stuff like this was always communicated clearly and early. They split the parent company behind mailbox.org into its own one and even this one was very nice communicated.
I’d love to try providers like Purelymail because I think 30€ per year for my few mails is a bit overkill but the money is well spent on people knowing what they are doing and most important, the servers are all hosted in Germany.
YMMV but I’m happy with them and would definitely recommend them!
I see myself in this one and I don’t like it.
Mailbox.org - It’s cheap, does it’s job very well and is fully hosted in Germany.
Comparing with MailChimp and co, I’d say it’s definitely cheaper (going with SES for sending mails at least).
I like it because I own the data of my email lists and in this sense, the control is also a big plus point! Plus it’s open source, probably easier to get something custom working than with any big provider out there.
Probably yes. But my best guess is most of them use AWS SES or a similar provider for the actual outgoing emails to avoid exactly this problem.
I personally only used serverless functions in combination with Next.js (which is by Vercel) and there may be are other rules if you don’t use Next.
But reading the docs I’d just copy an example hello world function into my git repository, try to deploy it and check if it works without paying.
Regarding the lambda approach, I personally think lambda functions and especially with the api gateway get too complicated too fast in comparison with a solution like Vercel. I’d definitely recommend an infrastructure as code tool like Terraform if you choose this approach.
Without knowing what your tech stack is or what your familiar in, I'd consider Vercel and their serverless functions. They support Node.js, Go, Python and Ruby [1] and also have a very generous free tier in my opinion [2].
[1] https://vercel.com/docs/serverless-functions/supported-langu...
More of a marketing comparison than a technical one, but here you go: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo
My main takeaways and why I personally use Plausible are their script is lightweight, it uses no cookies and therefore is by default GDPR compliant and it respects my visitor’s privacy by default. Also a big point, Matomo is way more complex than Plausible and personally overkill for all of my use cases.
Are the !a and !e bangs for Amazon and eBay defaulting to .com and if yes, is there a way to get them to default to e.g. amazon.de?