Show HN: Ad network for side projects has launched

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5 years ago

I'm excited to have launched Tiny Ads. https://tinyads.io A privacy respecting ad network for side projects. It's an old idea (web rings) lifted for a niche. Tiny Ads wants to become a network of smaller projects by linking each other on their respected landing page. The ad will provide a standardized way to display projects across the web. Like a feed layer on top your web page. New users will find your project by hopping from page to the next. I hope to create a positive sum game here.

3 weeks ago I posted a here and got positive feedback. So, thank you. I took it from demo to product spending on average 2 hours a day.

The backend is written in nodejs + postgres hosted on hetzner. I'm running it on the cheapest tier ~3Euro.

Most of the heavy lifting is done by postgres + graphile/worker [https://github.com/graphile/worker]. Images are cached on cloudflare and the server just sends ~400 btyes of json telling the browser what to fetch. I'm genuilly interested how much traffic I can handle with just 3 Euro.

The frontend is pretty dumb. Simple html (4kb) with a bit of alpinejs.

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