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tiiny.host - is this super simple to understand and use?

Just launched my new project and wanted to avoid a long marketing funnel to allow a user to use my service right away. Any thoughts?

http://tiiny.host

on August 25, 2019
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    Love it.

    I tried to create http://hola.tiiny.host/ but something went wrong :/

    Anyway, yes, I think it would benefit from having the site online faster.

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      Thank you!

      Just checked and looks like your zip didn't contain an index.html. I renamed your page and should work now.

      Thanks for testing it!

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    I like the idea and execution, it's simple and intuitive.

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      Thank you! Anything more you'd like see it have?

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        I was thinking of some source control and build integrations, but it would take away from the simplicity of the tool, and I think that is it's strength.

        So I would try to keep it as simple as possible, no bells and whistles, and focus on making it beautiful and user friendly instead.

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          Yep that was my thinking too. Have you heard of netlify? That's basically the full-suite offering with git, CI-CD etc

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            It's the first time I heard of netlify, but it's looking good.

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    It's super simple to understand and user? Yes

    But it's taking so long to take website up (DNS propagation)

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      Thanks for trying it. Did it take longer than 20mins?

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        If you update the DNS for each individual site, you might want to try to implement wildcard DNS name instead, and handle the subdomain routing on your load balancer. What tech do you use?

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          Currently via route53 on AWS but yes i agree perhaps nginx and a wildcard dns. Any other recommendations?

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            Not really, do you also create a new cloud front distribution for the site? Maybe you can use AWS API Gateway instead of nginx to process subdomain names.

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              Haven't built in CloudFront for the MVP but definitely on my list. Didn't think about API Gateway - will check it out, thanks!