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Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server

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804 points jryio | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 20:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Tiberium ◴[21 Oct 25 21:12 UTC] No.45661779[source]▶
The situation is interesting, and self-hosting is indeed a very nice solution often. However, I wanted to comment on the article itself - it seems to be very heavily AI-edited. Anyone who has spent time with LLMs will easily see it. But even that's not the issue; the main issue is that the article is basically a marketing piece.

For example, the "Bridging the Gap: Why Not Just Docker Compose?" section is a 1:1 copy of the points in the "Powerful simplicity" on the landing page - https://disco.cloud/

And this blog post is the (only) case study that they showcase on their main page.

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gregsadetsky ◴[21 Oct 25 21:20 UTC] No.45661866[source]▶
You're absolutely right! Here are some three points why:

- ...

I'm kidding :-)

Our library is open source, and we're very happy and proud that Idealist is using us to save a bit of cash. Is it marketing if you're proud of your work? :-) Cheers

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colechristensen ◴[21 Oct 25 21:28 UTC] No.45661955[source]▶
There's a tone issue.

Marketing should be marketing and clearly so. Tech blogs are about sharing information with the community (Netflix Tech blog is a good example) NOT selling something. Marketing masquerading as a tech blog is offputting to a lot of people. People don't like being fooled with embedded advertising and putting ad copy into such pieces is at best annoying.

https://netflixtechblog.com/

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fragmede ◴[21 Oct 25 21:41 UTC] No.45662083[source]▶
Nah, people are stupid. Including me. It's all marketing. Netflix's tech blog is marketing to engineers to want to go work there and to promote their product. If you want to see things though the lense that all advertising is bad, you'll make your life miserable because it's all advertising in one way or another.
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teiferer ◴[21 Oct 25 21:57 UTC] No.45662243[source]▶
Is it? Was this, your HN comment, marketing?

Mine isn't, unless you make the meaning of that term so broad that it essentially lost any meaningful meaning. (Intentionally meta.)

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1. fragmede ◴[21 Oct 25 22:10 UTC] No.45662370[source]▶
That's the problem with framing everything that way. This HN comment is marketing for my brand, my username, I sell t-shirts on my website! That's not why I'm commenting here, but the term is that broad because we're using it colloquially. It's a human psychology thing that I get entrapped into too. Calling it out doesn't make it not work. When you use the lens of marketing, your comment is marketing that you are not marketing, which is a specific category and advertising profile to be filed away in a database somewhere, if we go to the theoretical extremes.