Was pretty surprised that it cost you almost 250$ for a month to run this. Perhaps you could have tried hosting elsewhere. For eg. this would be easily acoomodated in AWS free tier I think. Could have given you a longer runway to iterate. Anyway, cool idea. Few hundred visitors a day is not bad!
I'm pretty surprised as well. It's basically a simple CRUD app. I think that a single digital ocean box could have done the trick.
True, I should have perhaps looked at cheaper options. Dynos were cheaper on most months, that example was the 'worst' month. The wildcard SSL certificate for subdomains was a bit expensive.
I really dig the idea behind the site. I am not a UX developer, but I am improving and the service would be invaluable. What can we do to help get the iteration back in place?
I assume the reason for not going with DO, Linode or AWS was you're not a devOps guy, which is understandable. We can help you with that.
Hey man if you sign up for Cloudflare you can get SSL for free. Plus a lot of other goodies. If you need help with setting up a Digital Ocean box with Phusion Passenger, Capistrano, Ruby, let me know.
Especially when the website does not work (I have an SSL error, see my other reply above).
I remember scanning your site when it was on the front page a few weeks ago. It just looked like a checklist to me. I wouldn't have thought you could charge for it. Perhaps the idea was just a bit too static to be able to turn into an app and charge for?
Would you consider open-sourcing your work now that it's no longer live?
Good idea!
"monthly costs of running the service" was your killing argument. Why didn't you migrate to a cheap hosting ? My single host at scaleway (3.59€ per month) can handle many toy projects and gives me all freedom.
I find Scaleway tricky when deploying apps since it is ARM - the price is kick ass, but I wasnt able to go around limitations with my Python apps. Do you ever run in to issues like that? How is uptime?
Scaleway seem to be out of stock now, for a few months already. They don't accept new customers
Or OVH, where ~$4/mo gets you a VPS with 2GB of RAM.
Please don't do that with drop shadows. The combination of the non-3d image and the 3d drop shadow makes for a really disconcerting distortion effect. Are the corners of the image curled up or not? A simple 2-3 px drop shadow on the right and bottom edges would look much better imo.
Would you sell it? Email me hirowatari [at] gmail
I get a "Secure Connection Failed" on Firefox/Chrome when trying to access the userium.com website: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
It's no longer live on that domain. I should have maybe titled my post 'post-mortem of a side project'? :)
The checklist is nowadays here: https://stayintech.com/info/UX and the Wayback machine holds a copy of the old website.