Redeploying on another platform was relatively easy to do.
Losing 10 years of data and information for all future reservations, etc. is harder to recover from. Not to mention the fact that I still have no idea if i was simply hacked and I should be trying to notify customers (customers of which I now have no record, because, again, all data and backups on Heroku-linked services).
I am sorry that it is to late and I know it is not helpful, but:
Always, always, always do a backup with an unrelated 3rd party. Being it a harddisk in your safe, AWS Glacier, whateverservice.
If you do backup with your main and only provider, you are going to loose (data). Related: See burning OHV data center (customers loosing backup because they were in same datacenter).
I don't think they are trolling; I have exactly the fear that somehow now my email, IP, all linked credit cards on other accounts, etc, are about to be autobanned by the same broken process that got me to this point.
The biggest concern is the complete lack of transparency in why the account was suspended; was I hacked and I need to protect other things? Was my customer data accessed? I haven't the faintest idea, which is a helpless feeling.
I had planned for outages, disconnects, etc, but literally EVERYTHING is behind the Heroku login; because I never considered anything I was doing remotely bad, I never considered I'd be suddenly unable to login to every 3rd party backup service, access environment variables, etc.
You are not your end users. I’ve had services terminated because script kiddies attacked me. Literally nothing in my control, it was bad optics for the provider (and their customers). So you must find a way to insulate yourself. Multiple accounts is the way.
Think of it like this, when you are doing your accounting you don’t put everything on a single line item, you separate by customer to understand where your profit and losses are occurring. Same with service accounts
Easy deployment and scaling of resources a decade ago, familiarity and not too expensive to switch as time has progressed (of course I host things elsewhere, just have a lot of client/personal data on Heroku).
I've spent the last few years building a product to help every user and business own their data. It solves Identity, Language, and Hosting, with customizable UIs.
It's cool because it can change the way we all communicate; instead of interacting with 3rd parties, you always interact with your AI that handles everything for you.
Just coming out of stealth, launch posts and whatnot coming soon :)
This is really well done! The website was beautiful and ran well on desktop and mobile,
It took a few clicks (after being sold on the idea) to get to the decision-making information: price and servings. A simple solution would be to add serving information directly to the online store list (where you currently have online pricing). You could also add the "Most Popular" item (again, with price and serving info) to the bottom of the initial landing page.
Thanks for the feedbacks.
In order to immediately launch something, we used square to establish a marketplace so we can show what we got and take payments.
Because we have different serving sizes, what is the typical number of servings you'd be looking for?
I love building API-backed apps and complete services. My experience includes building a niche SaaS product, writing the first iteration of Hackathon.io, and as a Tech PM at DocuSign. My ideal company would be a small team based in the Bay Area that wants passionate developers to contribute to building an amazing product or service in a short time frame.
Useable, definitely minimal. Goodreads is overkill for my needs and this is a nice start.
A few random pieces of feedback:
- Needs some sort of book registry API when adding books. Especially helpful if I'm adding just a few recent books to see how it actually works.
- I don't like that my read books are crossed off. Instead, I'd rather a second list, or a different color scheme.
Perhaps a nitpick, but it's offputting to see banner ads on a minimalist site. If this is a side project you've only worked a few days on and want feedback for, why try and monetize it right away?
Those are all great pieces of feedback; thank you :)
I think you're right about the crossing-off list. I'll try two columns that work side by side. I'll also consider removing the banner ads; I sort of include those as a default, mostly to see how they'd end up looking. This is a side-project in its infancy, so I'm clearly not expecting to make much (or any) money from it at this point.
I'll see what I can do with the registry API... it's definitely something I've thought about, but haven't yet had time to implement.
Thanks for using it and for leaving some feedback! It's very much appreciated :)
For a fun (fictional) take about life on Mars, I'd recommend reading The Martian by Andy Weir ( amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B... ). The book was a wild read, and does a tremendous job showing the myriad difficulties humanity must overcome in order to colonize Mars.
I'll definitely be updating the thread with however the now-started legal process plays out.