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That's why to build things as a static site generator, and then the result of that effectively needs no further maintenance, and only costs whatever the domain costs.

Makes it much more viable to keep such experimental things online "forever".

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Pleading guilty

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2249390

I planned to revive it later, but life got in the way

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HackerTube is 404 and 503ing, so it might not last a day.
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HN hug of death at its best
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It would be interesting to see how many times this same project has been done because I feel like I was seeing it at least once a month for years.

The book recommendation aggregation website is so common because it’s one of the few variations of this theme that can be monetized through affiliate links.

None of them last long because the traffic falls to zero basically as soon as it falls off the front page.

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Spoke my mind
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They're all just vibecoded, so whenever you need one just spend an hour doing it yourself I guess
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This is why way. I vibe coded my own for personal use when the one I used went down.
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Try web.archive.org
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Feature suggestion: once copyright is up, link to a free online version (e.g. on archive.org, or similar online collections)
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I think they’re talking about the index going away, not the books themselves.
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Unfortunately, copyright won’t be up for most of these books in our lifetimes.
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