I have an amateur website up and running where club members can book an accomodation.

Most other software wants more than the $100 one time payment that some random WordPress plugin demanded (VikBooking.)

iAMkenough 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Since security isn’t a concern, why not use $100 in AI tokens to build your own solution? Could then market it as a replacement to VikBooking and sell it yourself to other amateur clubs.

	▲	to11mtm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because the problem is more complicated than that. I'll give the example case from my real life. My wife and one of my best friends want to start a blog. My wife has some wordpress experience from her last job. There isn't a big expectation for revenue, this is a hobby project. At least when I did my 'shopping', a managed wordpress instance as far as cost, was somewhere between 'as cheap as just doing self-maintained custom solution hosted' and 'a little bit more but the extra 3-10$ a month versus my time to actually maintain it' stopped me dead in my tracks of Vibe coding an alternative. IOW, the 'long tail' of wordpress, is the ecosystem of managed providers that exist where the user (at least as long as they are careful about plugins?) doesn't have to worry about updating the core bits, the provider takes care of that for them and can do it at a volume that makes it palatable.

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stickfigure 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

...and when your site is hacked, will it have been worth it?

"Some random WordPress plugin" is usually the main entry point. The core has a bad track record, but plugins are worse by far.

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antisthenes 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So what if it's hacked? Those people's data has probably already been leaked multiple times via huge breaches in Fortune 500 companies and government websites.

You just patch and redeploy.

	▲	askonomm 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		So what if this person gets mugged? They've probably been mugged multiple times before already! Thus, any future mugging is also totally fine!