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Written by Sandro Pennisi on 2024-10-04 at 17:00

I posted that my goal is to have about 30-40 paying subscribers for Woofly until end of the year (https://mastodon.social/@sandropennisi/113135592178730518). So I made a Numbers document with a chart. A line showing where I should be on a given date and another line showing where I really am (green line in the pic). Also with trend.

So currently I'm on track but very narrowly 😅 will be very close. But i think it helps (at least for me) to have a clear goal and something "measurable".

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Written by Santiago Lema :amiga: on 2024-10-04 at 17:05

@sandropennisi If I were you I’d add some basic gamification. Like user enables opt-in sharing (name of dog, picture, city only) and you show a ranking of the best walkers.

Server side can be relatively light and being opt-in + anonymous (aside from dog name) privacy is respected. If the dog agrees to it. Allow only pro to participate to reduce server cost.

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Written by Sandro Pennisi on 2024-10-04 at 17:37

@santiago yeah i‘m sure it could be cool and fun but i am really not good or experienced with server side things. Ok now that i think of it when you use CloudKit there’s a public shared db and i could write it in there. OR i could even use the GameCenter thing, forgot its name. It has scoreboard etc. I’ll put on my list but first i have another cool feature i want to make.

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Descendants

Written by Santiago Lema :amiga: on 2024-10-04 at 17:51

@sandropennisi Yeah server side is a whole world in itself. Right now my mindset is to never touch any of those “easy but uncontrollable systems”. I get a 5€ /month Debian instance on OVH and make it fit in there (2GB Ram, 1 Core).

You’d be surprised the performance you can get if your have a simple nginx + phpFPM setup that caches stuff in MemCache. Cheap to host, few lines of code, easy to backup. DB can even be SQLite (one file).

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Written by Santiago Lema :amiga: on 2024-10-04 at 17:56

@sandropennisi For the case I mentioned I would just let (paying users) upload their score + image in s folder and have a cron process update the ranking asynchronously from time to time. So you just serve a json with names, scores and image URLs.

Including images would require an approval process though anyway as you know people will pay to post dick pics. It’s the internet.

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Written by Sandro Pennisi on 2024-10-04 at 18:13

@santiago i see what you mean. Actually on client i am like this, i want to have control of whats happening. I almost never use any 3rd party libraries etc. Hate when i don’t know what’s happening. Yeah i guess it wouldn’t be that complicated. Surely should be feasible even with my very limited server-side skills haha.

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Written by Santiago Lema :amiga: on 2024-10-04 at 18:32

@sandropennisi I don’t know if my server skills are very good. What I mostly learned in the last 15 years was to drop all I learned from these shitty Google Compute, AppEngine, Amazon etc and metered friends and go back not to raw metal but nearly: simple Debian instances are my friends for life now.

Nothing hurts you as much when you’re already falling into deep burnout/depression as being constantly harassed by some corporation’s mandatory new way of doing things.

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