Show HN: Ad network for side projects has launched
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. ezzato how do you calculate how often to show each ad? If on my side project I get 10k views per month (and hence tinyads.io gets shown 10k times) does that mean that project will be shown more than my project that only gets 100 views per month? This sounds awesome. Would love something like this for indie apps.