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I meant cloudfare

Thanks :). We don't use Azure as our registrar. It seems I'll have to plan for this then, we also had another issue, AFD has a hard 500ms tls handshake timeout (doesn't matter how much you put on the origin timeout settings) which means if our server was slow for some reason we would get 504 origin timeout.

we are considering the same but because our website uses APEX domain we would need to move all DNS resolver to cloudfront right ? Does it have as a nice "rule set builder" as azure ?

we use front door (as does miccrosoft.com) and our website was down, I was able to change the DNS records to point directly to our server and will leave it like that for a few hours until everything is green

Last December I bought a Asus Zenbook S14 with the Core 7 Ultra (lunar lake) and to be honest I'm loving windows + wsl, being able to have a premade ubuntu image configured with my building tools and just import and work on my balcuny for 9h is amazing. On top of that , although it's not the best gaming machine (far from that) I can still run a cs2 and Halo inifinity prety well :).

At the company I work for we adopted Wordpress about 2 years ago, I was the engineer responsible for the implementation which required developing some custom blocks for the marketing team to use and we have a workshop registration offering that uses woocommerce for online payments.

The Wordpress actions and filters approach is solid and if you use an IDE like phpstorm it gives an amazing development experience because you can simply “search through autocomplete” possible hooks and read/check which one is better, the other main thing is you can always debug what’s happening as Wordpress php code base is extremely good.

Now for the block editor, what really helped me was copilot and ChatGPT , the documentation for Gutenberg is not the best so sometimes you had to go through the GIT repository to understand how some things should be done, but for the “initial push” on how to approach a block development generative AI is a really good help.

I honestly like Wordpress a lot, the security part is for me one of the drawbacks, you need to keep updating it along with the plugins. But, for a modern good looking and versatile blog , writing in Wordpress and pushing the generated pages to a static website host like GitHub pages is awesome :)

Exactly my thoughts, I now first ask chatGPT and then go to Google.

Thanks

I'd like to tell you how the "conversion flow" was but honestly I don't know what source the paying customer came from. I'm not using any visits tracking analytics so I don't know what was the source (Google Ads, organic, reddit, hacker news, or other).

yes it is, I really enjoy coding but having a "customer" on something you implemented alone with a direct relationship with users is special :)

The 90's were amazing :) ... tossed iMacs to Bill Gates and then post mailed you the money, awsome :)

Still, 2k in the 90’s , that’s really something :) … thanks for the details

Glad to hear it , a long time ago ? Did the side project turn out to increase a lot in revenue ? Thanks

Thats a great story , thanks :) … honestly I’m almost enjoying more seeing people here sharing their stories and giving encouragement than the small amount I made :).

Can I ask , was it like a lot of money ? Like, enough for a really good vacations :)?

Coming October 2022 basic auth will be gone , until then if you make a one time payment on my web app it will analyze daily what devices are using this legacy connection and whenever it finds a new one (not found on the previous parsings) it will tell you so you can track which ones still need to be moved which the app also provides instructions on how to do it. Coming October 1st I’ll delete all entries from the DB for privacy reasons and get in touch with all customers . But they only pay once . Was that what you meant ?

Sorry , it’s a one time payment and they get subscribed to the service for ever, the price isn’t always 10, it depends on the number of the devices they have using legacy because that’s directly connected to the computing costs, I should have explained it wasn’t recurring, thanks

:), unbelievable, donating to complain about a free game , that’s another dimension :). My offering is also focus on organizations so that helps :)

Thank you … really :)

Yes it is, thanks :)… man I really wasn’t expecting such an altruistic reaction from everyone in here , it’s really congrats :), I’m getting a lot more positive feeling from here than the other people I personally know and told them … “10€, that’s not much “, thanks :)

Of course , I can’t tell you what worked because I’m not tracking the origin of the visits to the point of purchase but here is what I did:

Used Google AdWords but with a real low budget (10€ per day)

Used Reddit to share it and hacker news , there was a post I did in Reddit which took a lot of attention and was the cause of having to put it paid due to the amount of usage: https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/v3z5q9/microsoft...

Shared solutions and contributed in Microsoft tech support community

Was careful to use keywords based on google trends and Google AdWords recommendations on my blog posts

Posted on Hacker News

I didn’t send any cold emails but was thinking about it although there might be gdpr issues and spam risk and just bothering people

Looking at the stripe payments list and seeing the words “successful” in green was really special :) … I mean it’s 10 bucks but still , for something open in the internet and bought by someone on the other side of the planet is really great

Oh ok, thanks, but should I just replace "Tell HN" to "Launch HN" part or also change the title ? Because I already made a post when I lauched about it here in hacker news and this was more of thank you and just sharing the happiness of getting the first customer.

Thank you :) ... it felt like a lot more money due to being the first time and I thought "well at least it paid for McDonalds I had yesterday" :)

Sorry for the stupid question, but what do you mean ?

Thanks

Thank you :)

Thanks and sure, I work for a company which I'm responsible for the administration of Microsoft 365 and app development, they needed this, so I made it free online and a lot of other organizations started using it so I had to change to paid due to the server costs (the app does a lot of HTTP REST requests).

Thank you so much, I've been sharing on other places about my side project and they only come back with something in the lines "yeh right, no one will pay for this" ... really nice to hear something as supportive like this :)

I kinda agree with this , I mean, it would be perfectly fine if it wasn’t the elephant part. I played this with my brother and a friend , we are in our 30s, and I though “when I have a kid I’ll play this with them”… and then we got to the elephant part

Btw, just read that Microsoft has stopped developping the client app used to encrypt files for the Azure Information Protection, concentrating in native integration on Office Desktop Apss (Information rights management in sharepoint). I've updated the blog post.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-a...