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Totally - we're not advertising yet and usually only dealing with very local traffic at the moment, didn't expect to get tens of thousands of hits from linking to it from a hackernews comment!

The backend is an azure appservice running on a single low-spec worker at the moment, wasn't planning on enabling scaling before doing a hard-launch but here we are.

I am sorry, I always forget about the 'HN effect'!

It's a great marketing strategy. People without broadband access will truly feel it when they visit.

First Contentful Paint at 12.0 seconds here, and I'm on fiber.

On my phone on Comcast cable it was like 3 seconds for me.

Also was a few seconds of white screen for me. And I'm on fiber