In the math you laid out, you have to get 6 subs a year for 10 years on your $600/year plan in order to recoup your investment.
Why would this tweet generate leads for 10 years? Why didn’t you figure discounted cash flows into the calculation? Will 36K be worth 36K in today’s money 10 years from now? 10 months from now?
And now, your hosting provider is rate limiting your website and returning 429. All this HN traffic is going down the chute. Perhaps you should have spent some of that cash on a more robust hosting plan?
It did however let them write this blog post and generate even more interest, but unfortunately they've failed to make sure their blog can handle traffic, another missed opportunity I suspect.
(It's all arbitrary, of course; they're both just unrelated ISO codes. But for whatever reason, .io has become the canonical “the .com was taken” refuge.)
You really underestimated the value of a SaaS, with 6 subs contributing $3,600 ARR, a business will have the chance to be sold 10x at $36k. I can easily recoup my investment from an exit offer, and the domain itself has its investment value too.
Look things forward, not backward! A twitter account has 43k followers today maybe will have 430k followers next year.
429 is fine, even Cloudflare has an outage just a few days ago. For me, it's just learn the lesson, fix the bug by simply upgrading the plan, then move forward :)
I'd love to see a "I spent $35k on a domain" follow up in a year to see if it was a profitable decision or not.
Or how about the "remember that guy who spent $35k on a domain" story 5 years from now
Seems to be Cloudflare Workers rate-limited
Huh? Isn't Cloudflare CDN free forever? Is it because its hosted through a Worker?
Irony of losing out on HN traffic this time.
Edit I see another comment mentioned Workers. Well that is much less surprising. One shouldn’t expect the Workers free tier to handle an HN hug..
I guess you spent all the money on the domain and not your CloudFlare account.
Yestimonial.com is for sale and I bet for less than that .io.
>You cannot access this site because the owner has reached their plan limits. Check back later once traffic has gone down.
should have paid a little bit more for hosting then
(Although I have spent a bit more than that on a totally different domain a few years ago, perhaps I should blog that!)
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