Re-introducing MyPost
Hey Indie Hackers,
A few years ago, in 2015, I released my very first product into the wild. It was a great success. I shared the link once on Twitter and then later on released it on ProductHunt. I mentioned it a few times on Hacker News and that was about it. It went pretty viral and I was getting people creating 200-300 posts a day at its prime. The only advertising I had was my own products, which helped. The free was definitely attracting everyone. Unfortunately, as the posts were increasing, it became very hard to monitor.
Something happened earlier this year: It went from about 8,000 posts to 29,000 posts in just 2-3 days while I was on vacation. The dark web hit it hard, sharing malicious links, malware, illegal content, and everything you can think of. The DMCA shut the website down and my host would not allow me to put it back up until the links were removed.
This happened back around May or June. I didn't know what I was going to do, but with some clever trickery of my SQL knowledge, I was able to delete 21,000 posts in under an hour. Of course, I had to move it on to a server that could actually handle so many queries, but eventually, I got it back to normal and put the site back up.
However, how could I prevent people from abusing it again? I decided to put a paywall up at $5/month. The first 5 posts are free and after that, you can subscribe to MyPost via Paypal and post unlimited posts. I'm hoping the paywall will at least stop the spammers and scammers from even bothering. Hoping those people who utilized it before will come back and keep using it.
I was delayed in getting this fixed for months because I had been working on another project so this one took a backburner for a while as it needed serious updating: PHP 5.6 to PHP 7. Anyways, I'm happy to get it going again.
You can visit and try it out here: https://mypost.io
