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Good that you've positioned it for prototypes.
- that the code is 100% mit licensed (it's not)
- that this is in any way gdpr compliant (there are literal rules around this)
- that your data is encrypted and private (it isn't encrypted?)
- that they'll have 99.9% uptime (there is no SLA for vercel hobby tiers)
- "No middlemen. No third-party storage. Every submission lives in your GitHub..." (that is the very definition of third-party storage and a middleman)
If you know it's a glued-together solution that you'll have to rip apart if your program scales, why make it so complex in the first place?
You can utilize any mailing library in your backend to simply send emails or choose API email providers like Resend or Mailgun.
For spam protection, various providers are available, such as Cloudflare and Google.
> why make it so complex in the first place?
You're completely justified in questioning this, and I resonate with you and all the developers who feel the same way.
They do have a legal duty to defend their trademark in general though, as truly widespread use without it can lead to dilution (I think they're currently relatively safe from abandonment claims, unlike Oracle vs Deno and JavaScript). Quite a lot of software ends up moving in this direction, though it doesn't generally go to court except with clear abuse, and git-named stuff is pretty far down that path compared to most as far as I can tell.
Good luck on that hill.
Meanwhile, OP's project goes brrr.
OP's project runs on a metered Git service. You're basically proving their point, as cool as the project is.
It seems like you want to make this into some kind of viable business, and I don't mean to dissuade by any means, but this was a three-day project by a perfectly good guy, but one guy, extremely junior, that I was tasked with training on basic networking and systems administration duties. I don't want to speak ill of the man. I liked him a lot, but he was extremely hard to teach, could not seem to understand even the bare basics of how computers and the systems they collectively form when networked operate. But he could make this exact application, on his own, in a matter of days, before LLMs were a thing.
Not saying you can't manage it, but this is like trying to sell people sandwiches. Plenty make businesses doing exactly that, but you either need a captive audience or really good sandwiches, because most of the time anyone who wants one can make it themselves pretty easily.
Glad to see someone executing on this, and I love how descriptive the landing page is.
I even have it connected to a google sheet and google scripts, to send me emails for entries matching some patterns.
Heavily depends on Google, yes, but for something free that honestly I won't care if stops working (like a prototype) I'm ok with it.
https://feature-refactor-for-cloudfl.first-contact.pages.dev...
It's no longer "live" so I wouldn't try and use it. I was using Supabase free tier to manage auth, and got tired of keeping it live. Good lesson learnt.
And that only counts up as storage and you can have enough free storage of 500 mb by just signing up and proton is one of the most encrypted/trustworthy services in my opinion
They don't have an api so its an mess, I dont want to use a browser llm since it doesnt work, I have tried puppeteer etc. but they also do not work.
Browserbook (a recent product) did work in the end when I forced it after many tries but it tries to be a classic Ycombinator product and I am unable to run the code in things like puppeteer/ basically self hosted so its something I am still looking at
But I am curious what people think of this idea too if anyone's interested
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