Ported #unblockdomains completely to Dokku including the bg worker process which is now just a simple cron job, and delete all AWS resources to save $$$. Great feeling to see the logs being ingested properly and the domain monitoring job working. Let's see how low my bills are next month!

🎉 Got a real app deploying in Dokku with only 1-2 minor hiccups that were easy to solve with great documentation. Way, way better than Kamal and it's not even close, great docs + ChatGPT having already indexed them makes a huge difference. I also love the use of nginx over complicated solutions like Traefik #unblockdomains !private

Get a 7x performance bump by simply copying the statically linked binary to the docker container instead of having QEMU translate cpu instructions at a snail's pace #unblockdomains !private

Dockerize app in preparation to move to self-hosting and notice builds are slow as hell because QEMU is being used to translate machine code from x86_64 (GH actions) -> arm64 (my server). Thought of a solution to speed this up, implementing now #unblockdomains !private

Finish my initial test of self-hosted PaaS solutions and post about it on X: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… Next up: moving #unblockdomains to Dokku as a test and blogging about it !private

Just added usage statistics (how many domains, users) to the top banner of unblock.domains because I think it looks cool. Also added response caching to prevent people from DDoSing this API #unblockdomains

Fixed a launch-day bug where I noticed people were entering domains with schemes like https:// + whatever.com instead of the domain itself (whatever.com). These now get normalized properly #unblockdomains

Launch on X, LinkedIn, Reddit, ProductHunt, HN, BetaList: www.producthunt.com/posts/unb… x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… www.linkedin.com/feed/update/… www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/… www.reddit.com/r/Indiehacker/… www.reddit.com/r/Bootstrapped… news.ycombinator.com/item?id=… Still working on posting to more directories 🚀 #unblockdomains !private

Taking a break from Watchdog while it's banned on Reddit, scheduled product hunt launch for tomorrow for #unblockdomains. A bit faster than I'm comfortable with as I haven't had enough time to drum up support, but I want to bias for moving fast and launching as soon as it's ready to launch. !private

Updated the secondary text on the top section of unblock.domains to be a bit clearer in terms of the value Thanks @nathanwailes for the feedback #unblockdomains !private

Ask for feedback on landing page copy: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #unblockdomains !private

Added a docs page and linked to it in the domains page so people can understand what all the different statuses mean #unblockdomains

Added an explanation of each status change in notification emails for unblock.domains. Thanks @catonoise for the suggestion to clarify these status changes #unblockdomains

Added a message when new domains are added to explain why the status is "Pending" at the beginning #unblockdomains

Colored ping animations and "Get Unblocked" button for unblock.domains: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #unblockdomains !private

Added a way for people to delete their domains on unblock.domains if the list gets too cluttered. Thanks @catonoise for the suggestion! #unblockdomains

Finally get email sending working in production and tweet about the pain of working with AWS: x.com/ben_makes_stuff/status/… #unblockdomains !private

See the domain monitor working and correctly marking a domain as blacklisted 🎉. Now to figure out why my code is timing out connecting to SMTP in production. #unblockdomains

Added a simple email notification when domains transition statuses #unblockdomains

Finished testing the end to end flow for importing and configuring blacklist monitoring for domains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stob… #unblockdomains