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by socalgal2 408 days ago
Cute!

I'm curious, why use netify and not just github pages? AFAICT your app is just a static page. If so, there's no reason you need netify (which IIUC will require $$$ knock you off eventually). Is there some tutorial/LLM/template you followed that used netify? Were you planning on adding serve side features, user accounts, galleries? Just curious.

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I've had small static sites running on netlify for years, for free, never had any problems. I did so because I already have a site on github pages as well, so needed more free options.

What have you seen that would force people out of their free tier?

> I did so because I already have a site on github pages as well, so needed more free options.

Every repo you make shows up at a different place. Is that no enough. If you care about enough the domain name then register a domain?

> What have you seen that would force people out of their free tier?

If that's not common then maybe I just have a bad memory.

Haha, you’re absolutely right! I had built my blog with Astro before, and the tutorial I followed used Netlify for deployment. So I just stuck with it. I don’t have any plans to add server-side features for now. Anyway, thanks for your reply!!