Cursor is a fork of VSCode with code AI that, in my oppinion, better than Zed and other competitor because they implement the MODIFYING existing code workflow better. Most other code AI products are only good at code generation or being a better stack overflow. I don't use Copilot to tell, does it show you diff like Cursor when modifying code?
Best job I ever had working with the best people, and I have to think good leadership was a huge part of it. When everything comes together like that you can't imagine ever working anywhere else (hence my initial bewilderment and why he thought I'd take the interview). Eventually leadership changes though...
Truly a privilege to experience it at least once in your career.
We were charged $10k for the first month of use and immediately reverted the implementation. CF was kind enough to refund us since we're still an early stage co. It would be great if pricing was more reasonable
I remember there was another article about image uploads and content moderation (here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28684250), essentially saying that if you create a open uploading service, you WILL start getting lots of spammy images / abuse.
CF Images always seems like a LOT more $$ than other image hosting tools out there. What other service did you end up going with?
I often use Bunny CDN where it's $10 a month for UNLIMITED image alterations. They charge half a cent per gigabyte on traffic of the post processed image (in their bulk tier) along with 1 cent per gigabyte for storage.
The nearest competitor is likely over 10x more (Caveat: For the workloads I've applied this on).
they also removed the private images part, and pivoted towards becoming a "social network" (several years too late). Honestly no idea how they stay alive.
Also honestly no idea why they never jumped on the NFT bandwagon.
Oh, they're also apparently a tiny team (<50) too, so that probably helps
Lucky for you that you don't check your bills on a quarter basis (3 months). It could have been another story to be reimbursed and the bills might have more than triple.
I had a client a few years ago who was using another service for image hosting, and they were getting charged through the nose for it. This is before cloudflare had their own image CDN style service. The client's app made heavy use of URL based image transforms. And we didn't want to lose that - so it seemed like they were a little stuck.
The website itself was already using cloudflare's CDN. So I added a simple cloudflare URL rule to redirect all requests hitting /images/XXX to the 3rd party image hosting service. Within a month our client's image hosting bill dropped from $~10k/month down to about $90/month, which I felt great about.
I did made one terrible mistake though - I forgot to tell our client about the configuration change. So cue a monday morning panicked phone call from our client when they got their bill, asking what on earth was happening that caused all their web traffic to disappear overnight. They thought (based on the bill) that their website must be broken and they were freaking out about it! Oops!
The client was using an image host which supported image transforms. They uploaded all their images there and were using a lot of image transforms from that host on their website. So, HOST/img/123?scale=1.3&color=greyscale type business. They were paying per image loaded from the site.
We tucked cloudflare in front of the image host using a URL rewrite rule. Cloudflare's cache reduced the number of requests made to the image host by 99% or something.
I'd add make sure your site loads quickly. I tried buying something yesterday from an online vendor, but it took 10s+(!) just to load a product page. I eventually gave up after 2 minutes of frustration and bought from a competitor whose site loaded quickly.
