Seems like you've achieved a bit more success with this idea that I did. I ran a service that does exactly the same thing for over a year and never managed to get anyone to pay for it :/ I'm looking forward to your continued reports to see how it goes for you.
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Seems like you've found a real problem since your getting traffic and traction!
Since you mentioned you are working on onboarding next, I wanted to share a resource I recently found and heavily lean on: https://www.useronboard.com/
Samuel (maker of useronboard) tears down some onboarding experiences showing what he expected versus what the product actually did. It has helped me think much deeper about how to improve the experience for my own project.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Thanks for sharing this resource
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Awesome site! Mind if I ask where you got the illustrations from?
Great writeup, thanks for sharing! Your website looks really good, is it custom built or are you using some template?
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Thank you! I built it from scratch using Bulma CSS framework!
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Kubernetes is not a hosted platform. I don't get how you would be able to reduce operating cost below $ 20 with it. A kubernetes cluster requires quite some initial resources just to get started. Would you like to squelch my curiosity? đ
Sounds like you really had a great start. Keep it up!
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Yes, I know, we quite heavily use k8s at Buffer to manage our containers :) I was thinking to deploy Cronhub on a k8s cluster hosted in Google Cloud. I think it's free to get started and will be cheaper for me with the pay-as-you-go pricing model they have.
Thank you!
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I don't think you should use kubernetes for your app, it's an overkill. And probably will cost more than what you pay right now + other operating costs. I run project Simple OKR (https://simpleokr.com) on google cloud. It's built in Go and I deploy it to app engine. Costs about ~$40/month to run app engine but it makes deployments simple, gives ssl cert easy way to scale cronjobs and other things.
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+1 I work for a massive corp and even we're not at kubernetes scale yet. Realistically this entire thing could run on a $10 - $20 DO node without the need for Forge (if you wanted to cut costs).
I run multiple Laravel projects on $5/$10 from DO and just deploy manually from GitHub which takes seconds.
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love cronhub. I am currently thinking about using it. my experience with k8s on google cloud is at least not cheap. I used 3 of the âsmaller" instances for a little bit of redundancy. The smallest ones did not work. They could barely run the k8s pods, not to speak of the application pods. So dont take the smallest. This way I burned through a free GCP credit of ~300$ iirc in a few months. But the k8s experience was great though đ would love to use it, but I think its a case of âyou must be this tall to use k8sâ.
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Thank you and thanks so much for sharing your experience with k8s. I also have a Google Cloud credit and was thinking to use it. I agree, the application pods are heavier so they may require a bigger instance. I know the experience is everything. It makes my dev flow so much faster! :)
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I can also share that my experience of GKE is that it's great, but certainly not cheap. Free credit doesn't stretch too far in the end.
I have a couple of freelance clients who I've helped onto GKE and both happen to be working out of startup co-working spaces that are part of the GCP startup programme. In both cases, the clients got $20k of credits.
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Wow, thanks for sharing!
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It's a good start. Please keep working.
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Inspiring, thank you for sharing your updates.
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Love the idea and the design. I like how you used yourself as an initial testimonial.
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Thank you! Hehe, when you donât have any customers/users in the beginning I donât see why you canât use yourself for a testimonial :)
Seems like you've achieved a bit more success with this idea that I did. I ran a service that does exactly the same thing for over a year and never managed to get anyone to pay for it :/ I'm looking forward to your continued reports to see how it goes for you.
Seems like you've found a real problem since your getting traffic and traction!
Since you mentioned you are working on onboarding next, I wanted to share a resource I recently found and heavily lean on: https://www.useronboard.com/
Samuel (maker of useronboard) tears down some onboarding experiences showing what he expected versus what the product actually did. It has helped me think much deeper about how to improve the experience for my own project.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Jonathan
Thanks for sharing this resource
Awesome site! Mind if I ask where you got the illustrations from?
Sure thing! :) Here they are: https://undraw.co/illustrations
Great writeup, thanks for sharing! Your website looks really good, is it custom built or are you using some template?
Thank you! I built it from scratch using Bulma CSS framework!
Kubernetes is not a hosted platform. I don't get how you would be able to reduce operating cost below $ 20 with it. A kubernetes cluster requires quite some initial resources just to get started. Would you like to squelch my curiosity? đ
Sounds like you really had a great start. Keep it up!
Yes, I know, we quite heavily use k8s at Buffer to manage our containers :) I was thinking to deploy Cronhub on a k8s cluster hosted in Google Cloud. I think it's free to get started and will be cheaper for me with the pay-as-you-go pricing model they have.
Thank you!
I don't think you should use kubernetes for your app, it's an overkill. And probably will cost more than what you pay right now + other operating costs. I run project Simple OKR (https://simpleokr.com) on google cloud. It's built in Go and I deploy it to app engine. Costs about ~$40/month to run app engine but it makes deployments simple, gives ssl cert easy way to scale cronjobs and other things.
+1 I work for a massive corp and even we're not at kubernetes scale yet. Realistically this entire thing could run on a $10 - $20 DO node without the need for Forge (if you wanted to cut costs).
I run multiple Laravel projects on $5/$10 from DO and just deploy manually from GitHub which takes seconds.
love cronhub. I am currently thinking about using it. my experience with k8s on google cloud is at least not cheap. I used 3 of the âsmaller" instances for a little bit of redundancy. The smallest ones did not work. They could barely run the k8s pods, not to speak of the application pods. So dont take the smallest. This way I burned through a free GCP credit of ~300$ iirc in a few months. But the k8s experience was great though đ would love to use it, but I think its a case of âyou must be this tall to use k8sâ.
Thank you and thanks so much for sharing your experience with k8s. I also have a Google Cloud credit and was thinking to use it. I agree, the application pods are heavier so they may require a bigger instance. I know the experience is everything. It makes my dev flow so much faster! :)
I can also share that my experience of GKE is that it's great, but certainly not cheap. Free credit doesn't stretch too far in the end.
I have a couple of freelance clients who I've helped onto GKE and both happen to be working out of startup co-working spaces that are part of the GCP startup programme. In both cases, the clients got $20k of credits.
Wow, thanks for sharing!
It's a good start. Please keep working.
Inspiring, thank you for sharing your updates.
Love the idea and the design. I like how you used yourself as an initial testimonial.
Thank you! Hehe, when you donât have any customers/users in the beginning I donât see why you canât use yourself for a testimonial :)
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