Growing a side-project to 100k Unique Visitors in one week

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OpenAlternative

I then picked the simplest name I could find and registered openalternative.co for $6.99.

#Open Source #Developer Tools #SaaS 5 social mentions

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CloudFlare

Since Astro is a static site generator, I could host the site for free on Cloudflare. I've never used Cloudflare before, but they've been pretty popular lately due to their free hosting and CDN. I was impressed with how easy it was to set up, and the performance was great.

#CDN #Cloud Computing #Content Distribution 105 social mentions

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BaseQL

Unfortunately, Airtable's API isn't the best for querying data, so I used a middleware service to turn the Airtable API into a GraphQL API. This allowed me to query the data in a more flexible way.

#APIs #Software Engineering #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

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Astro Build

Astro was always on my list of things to learn. I've been using Remix and NextJS for a while, and I was interested in trying out a new framework. I decided it would be a good opportunity to build the site with it. This decision turned out to be a great one, as it saved me a lot of money on hosting costs later on.

#Website Builder #Blogging #Blogging Platform 254 social mentions

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Airtable

For the backend, I opted for Airtable as a database. It's a simple, no-code solution that I've used before. It's not the most powerful database, but it's perfect for a project like this. I could easily add, edit, and delete records, and it has an embeddable form functionality that I used for user submissions.

#No Code #Spreadsheets #Databases 130 social mentions