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Yes, forced lockdowns means more people inside playing with their toys :) The site stats definitely show that. I did a post back in May showing the initial impacts: https://rebrickable.com/blog/257/coronavirus-impacts-on-afol...

There are certainly some negative people on the site, but the moderator team do a good job of making sure any criticism is genuine and not a personal attack.

Thanks for your continued support :)

It started off as a side-project for fun, now has grown so large it's my primary income. Unfortunately it hasn't left me with enough spare time to enjoy LEGO much though.

My kids enjoyed LEGO Masters (Australia), and it certainly seemed to bring some new people to the site.

There have been several attempts that I know of. But they all tend to have a low number of categories they sort into - tens vs the thousands of actual categories that exist.

I have tried it myself and it simply needs more input data (ie photos). However, that is something I might follow up on later as I can fairly easily get more data just by asking my community :)

The sorting can be quite relaxing for some people (ie me). Kind of like a background task you can perform while watching a movie and calm your mind of things.

- Django + Postgres + Ubuntu. Runs on Linode with some AWS usage and Digital Ocean for backups (I prefer backups on different platforms).

- Content is community driven, along with a team of volunteer admins to maintain it.

- Copyright problems are constant. People try to submit MOCs designed by other people all the time.

Hey, I built this site and just noticed the traffic. If anyone has questions, ask away :) A better starting url is https://rebrickable.com/

2nd for The Bobiverse, it has some humour and had some fresh ideas in it.

Have you ever tried to use PayPal's documentation? Might make you feel better about Stripe :)

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

It's an "accen"t pointing to the fu"ture".

source: unfortunately I used to work there when they came up with the name.

I loved it and paid for it. Sure, I didn't have to but I sure feel better having done so. Besides, I'd easily spend that money on a game that lasts a few dozen hrs at most so why not a tool I use every day?

Agreed. I've been using Django for only a little while, and sometimes find it quite frustrating. Then something finally makes sense and I realise I've been doing it wrong and the proper way makes everything soooo easy. The trick is to know when you're doing it the wrong way which isn't always apparent.

I had an account closed with about 2k in it and no amount of pestering them made a difference. Then suddenly, about a year afterwards (I think), they sent me a cheque with the balance. Also, I was able to create a new account after fixing what they didn't like and haven't had issues with it.

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

After nearly a year of panicking about going from 7 to 10 and breaking all my tools, I finally did it a few days ago. Everything worked, nothing broke.

Yes, I've had lots of suggestions for applying the tech to other things but the problem is I have no interest in those other things :)

DBA (Postgres, Oracle, MySQL) https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. I built the original site in a few months, but have been steadily expanding it for 5 years now.

About $10-$20/day on 1.5M pageviews/month. My cpm/ctr sucks.

Yeah, ads and affiliate sales. It gets a decent amount of traffic (~130K users/month, 2M pageviews) but I have trouble monetising it.

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. The revenue fluctuates quite a lot though since I suck at that side of things.

If their learning material is based on expert human games, how can it ever get better than that?

I don't show ads for every page view (only unregistered users), and click rate is more like 0.1%. Now I feel like I'm doing something very wrong... advice welcome!

$0.20 to $0.30 :(

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

My adsense earnings are terrible though, I've always assumed because the site is more image heavy than text.

I had 16M pageviews in 2015 and a hell of a lot less adsense earnings than you :( What's your CPM?

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

I guess it would only loosely be called "passive" as I spend a lot of time on it. But, I can take vacations and it continues to earn... for a while :)

I'm excited about the sorting improvements. Large index creation performance has been an embarrassment (I often have to defend pg against Oracle!), hopefully this will make things vastly better.

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs.

I started in a few years ago, but over the Christmas break I put a lot of time into it and it's growth has spiked quite well as a result. I need to upgrade my servers now :/