THthunderbong·Jul 12, 2023Submission
Microbin: Tiny, self-contained, configurable pastebin and URL shortener in Rust
4 points · Open discussionszabodanika
microbin
Rust2022–2023
szabodanika / microbin
microbin
A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.
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What it is
A secure, configurable file-sharing and URL shortening web app written in Rust.
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Observed mentions: 2022-06-27 20:24:21 UTC to 2023-07-12 08:47:50 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2022 | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2022 | 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Nov 2022 | 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dec 2022 | 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2023 | 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2023 | 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2023 | 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2023 | 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2023 | 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesMicrobin – A self-contained, configurable paste bin written in Rust
1 points · Open discussionAsk HN: How to go about ceating an public instance of my FOSS webpastebin?
Hello, I am the maintainer of https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin, a simple pastebin web app that a lot of people love to self-host and I would love an official, high performance, high availability instance of this to exist that everyone can use, as a slightly modified fork of the original project.
The domain and the server would cost me some money and I would like the project to cover this expense on its own, but without annoying any users. I was thinking 1-2 simple blockable side banner ads but I'm not quite sure if that will annoy anyone or will even cover the costs. Maybe I should forget about this and just pay for it myself as it's my project after all.
Is there any other way I could make one or possibly more instances of this service public without much investment/earn the investment back?
One important thing is that I wouldn'
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t like to ask anyone to host it on their own personal servers (as someone generously offered before) to keep management easier and just in case users do anything nasty (which I expect they will at one point).
A tiny, self-contained, configurable pastebin and URL shortener written in Rust
3 points · Open discussion