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 vijay verma

vijay verma

@realvjy

A wizard ✦ love code + design ✦ making tools and resources ✦ building games ✦ 3dicons.co, vjy.me/work ✦ Need design? overlayz.studio
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What are the best alternative/solution to host my data exceeding 4GB, other than DigitalOcean?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Update: Thank you guys for suggestions. I switched to Cloudflare and it's almost 1 month. Also, added gumroad link as fallback and it generated some revenue as well. Here short story story.vjy.me/14

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What are the best alternative/solution to host my data exceeding 4GB, other than DigitalOcean?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Thanks Evhen!

Yeah that's the plan. Will test both R2 and digital ocean once v2 release. Currently moved to R2 as Martijn suggested.

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Which sites do you go when you need to find design resources?
vijay verma
@realvjy

I check sometime bookmarks.design/ but I have my own repository saved on notion :)

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Paulina Sáez
@Paulina

I save mine in an Obsidian note

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Ozan Oztaskiran
@ozanoz

I'm planning to try Obsidian as the main note taking app. I tried everything except that one 😅 Are there any downsides about it you can tell?

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Ozan Oztaskiran
@ozanoz

Didn't know about it! Looking great. Thanks Vijay!

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What to choose between DigitalOcean and Firebase?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Thanks Jeff for explaining in deatils.
I'll look to amazon s3 again. Setting this feel too complex :)

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What to choose between DigitalOcean and Firebase?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Thanks, I'll check cloud flare.
But, my 3d render files is around 4 gb+. Github will allow to use it with heavy traffic and bandwidth?

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I think Git LFS maxes out at 1GB (or 2GB) so 4 GB is going to be too much. Packing is a little different because I have some 6GB and 8GB Docker images in their packaging product, but that is probably more hoops to jump through.

Amazon's S3 might be a good cheaper solution or even Backblazes bulk object storage product. I think it's $5 or $10 a month and would more than cover your files sizes + quoted downloads.

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vijay verma
@realvjy

Thanks Jeff for explaining in deatils.
I'll look to amazon s3 again. Setting this feel too complex :)

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Ben Katz
@ben

Was about to suggest S3 as @jefftriplett did. Also take a look at Cloudflare R2 - zero egress charges last I checked.

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What is the optimal solution for sending emails to 35K users?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Update:

Currently, using Convertkit for email newsletter with 3K subscribers

And for annoucement-
I also discovered that Gumroad offers a free newsletter service for product announcements. It can be triggered upon a purchase or used for broadcasting updates. A funny incident occurred while I was testing it – I accidentally sent a test message to all 35K users, and now I'm receiving messages from them asking what they purchased! 😛
Total opening rate in 1 hours was 20% of 31K delivered messages.

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Cat Stickler
PRO
@cat

Look at you figuring out solutions! 🙌🏼 Way to capture attention!

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What is the optimal solution for sending emails to 35K users?
vijay verma
@realvjy

Hi,

Thank you for detailed explanation and recommendation.
* Yes, I have a weekly newsletter with 5K subscribers, and I was using Mailchimp before. Now, I want to combine my other subscribers from Gumroad (around 35K) and Lemonsquezy (3K) as well. Of course, adding all 35K subscribers at once would be too much, so I'm planning to start with around 10K subscribers for my weekly newsletter. I wanted to use Substack, but my designer instinct pushed me to create a custom email template instead of settling for Substack's standard layout. I'm looking for alternatives, and currently, I migrated around 5K subscribers to ConvertKit to give it a try.

  • Yes, planning to setup other email automation as well to send to all existing gumroad member. FloDesk, I heared first time.

Let me explore this. Thanks again. Sure love to connect and discussion further.

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