| ▲ | unshavedyak 2 days ago |
| Alright, i had plans to use Github (or maybe something Cloudflare ish) but your $2/m has me seriously interested. I'm reviewing now. I hate when i see fun side projects that cost the same as full subscriptions to other products. There's only a handful of $15/m services i "want" in my life.. it really raises the barrier to entry when i'm so aware and averse to subscription costs. Yet $2/m? Instantly sold on that price. It's a fun price, it looks like a fun product, it lines up perfectly for me. It's silly that the price has me almost more interested than the product. Love it Thanks for this, i plan to try it out! |
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| ▲ | unshavedyak 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Bandwidth limitations has me chuckling though: https://pico.sh/faq#are-there-any-bandwidth-limitations Any thoughts on how the review will happen when that barrier is reached? |
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| ▲ | wongarsu 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Traffic isn't actually that expensive outside of big clouds. No idea where pico is hosted, but Hetzner gives you "unlimited" 1Gps connections with a dedicated server, or a 10G uplink charged at $1.20/TB (plus a fixed monthly fee for the uplink itself). | | |
| ▲ | shishcat 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I have good reasons to believe this is hosted on Oracle's free tier. Apart from the fact that pinging pico.sh points to an Oracle IP, the 10TB limit is consistent with Oracle Free Tier's limit. | | |
| ▲ | qudat 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | You are correct, we are also multi-cloud: https://pico.sh/regions | |
| ▲ | wongarsu 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Good call. Oracle does charge somewhat reasonable $8.50/TB after the first 10TB/month. Despite my dislike of Oracle it's not a terrible choice for this until you get some serious traffic. | | |
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| ▲ | iambrandonm 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Totally feel you on this and kudos to these guys, low pricing makes it so much easier to actually try something without second-guessing. I’m working on a similar philosophy with my own project, 99dev — simple tools for indie devs at just $1/month. Starting with lightweight analytics (like a mini Plausible), but more tools are on the way. No bloat, just useful stuff for folks like us who are building things and watching our budgets. Really glad to see more projects like pico.sh embracing low cost, no frills, indie services.
https://99.dev |
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| ▲ | ryao 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You could use GitHub pages + cloudflare for free hosting. My neighbor uses that. |
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| ▲ | blatantly a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
| $2 is fun for hobbies but hope you are not running in production for your customers with that sort of service level! |
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| ▲ | qudat a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Thanks for the comment because I think many -- including myself -- resonate with this sentiment. Our pricing strategy was to be competitive with a user just provisioning their own VPS VM with a cloud provider. Our goal is to be competitive on price with a $5/mo VM. Further, we are mostly targeting individual/small teams who want to rapidly prototype on the web. We provide enough convenience features (e.g. zero-install, multi-region, site analytics, tunnel connect/disconnect notifications, easy script automation) to entice users to keep their prototypes running in "prod" as long as possible before they feel the need to provision their own VPS. We could go upstream and try to target larger teams/companies, but honestly, this is just fun for us to do on the side. We don't make any guarantees about uptime at this point but we take it very seriously (we have alerting and respond quickly) and treat it like our day-jobs (I work at a paas and antonio is a platform engineer wizard). | |
| ▲ | unshavedyak a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | For static sites is there that much missing? Throw a good CDN in front of this and would it matter much who the host was? | | |
| ▲ | blatantly 20 hours ago | parent [-] | | At $2/m SRE is powered by love only. | | |
| ▲ | unshavedyak 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yea, but if it's cached in a CDN does it matter as much? We're talking static sites here, they scale incredibly easy and cheaply and something like Cloudflare makes this obscenely easy and robust. Am i being too generous? |
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