[jlukic]

I also run a customizable start page http://myfav.es

its cost $100/month for 10 years to run but i keep it up because a lot of schools use it to help set up their shared computers and i couldn’t ever have the heart to shut it down.

Once you set it up you can also run it entirely offline using app manifests from myfav.es/fast if you don’t like the idea of your new tab experience being slowed down by web requests.

[sph]

Why so expensive?

[fazfq]

Certainly not because of maintenance costs since he's still running PHP 5.5

[oars]

A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour.

If this person is spending 2 hours of their time each month maintaining this website (which they gain nothing out of) that's $100/month.

[mosselman]

I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money.

It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it. If it were that way, you'd be able to say: "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month":

> A software engineer who makes $100,000 a year, working 40 hours a week for 52 weeks, makes about $50/hour.

So let's say 1 hour of toilet time per day on average, so: 30 * 50 = 1500.

What nonsense.

[softwarebeware]

> I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money.

> It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it.

Yes, but a public good has costs whether or not you want to acknowledge them.

[ilyt]

On top of that who on earth would price their free time at same as they do their job? My free time is 2-4x the job

[someweirdperson]

> "I pay $1500+ for going to the toilet each month"

It's a little less (I don't need that long), but most importantly, my boss is paying for most of that.

[chiefalchemist]

Don't shit where you eat? Instead, shit where you work?

Makes sense ;)

[detaro]

I think the saying is "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time."

[ksala_]

I very much doubt they where talking about this, and where instead referring to their hosting costs.

[easrng]

Do browsers even support app manifests anymore? I thought they'd abandoned them in favor of service workers.

[ghostly_s]

Is this not the exact same feature-set the browser's built-in 'start pages' already provide?

[robofanatic]

how much do you make out of it?