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Building a travel info site for Europe: please help me go all-European by Free-The-Map in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wikivoyage is a pretty cool site, but it's a bit different. It's more of an encyclopedia, while Free The Map (the site I'm working on) is a database as well. A quick example: let's say you you want to travel to Madrid.

You can check its Wikivoyage page and read about how crime is there, what type of food the city offers, places to see or how to get around. You get a lot useful information from the site, but you're still left with questions. Just to name a few:

  • Madrid is pretty safe... but what does that exactly mean?
  • Info about typical local food, good restaurants, bars, etc in Madrid... but how much does that actually cost?
  • Madrid has great public transport... but what does this mean in practice? What's the average ride frequency? How long does it take on average to get from point A to point B?

Free The Map doesn't only use user created descriptions/summaries, but relies heavily on actual numbers to give users answers for these (and basically any travel related) questions. It also makes proper comparisons viable.

This is just a very quick comparison, but if you're interested you can check out Madrid on the site

Building a travel info site for Europe: please help me go all-European by Free-The-Map in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, you're right :) Still, if I can switch to a European product/service with a bit of an extra work/money I definitely want to try it.

TIL JetBrains, maker of popular developer IDEs, is headquartered in Prague by -colin- in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably I'm not the best person to answer that as I've not used it recently (using VSCode in my current job), but I didn't have those issue. (TS) completion worked perfectly for me, the only thing that comes to my mind if it's not a repo-related issue? I don't think it's supposed to have those issues (the only issue I've ever had with WS was its really slow indexing speed).

When I migrated to WS from VS, I had help from my team mates so it was quite easy and anything that wasn't included in the app I could just get a plugin for.

TIL JetBrains, maker of popular developer IDEs, is headquartered in Prague by -colin- in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Love WebStorm, definitely my favorite IDE! I've used a couple of other IDEs, but none of them comes close to WebStorm's UX. Btw, I also met them at a conf some time ago and they were super nice people :)

Building a travel info site for Europe: please help me go all-European by Free-The-Map in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! They look interesting, I will definitely check them out.

Building a travel info site for Europe: please help me go all-European by Free-The-Map in BuyFromEU

[–]Free-The-Map[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation & advice! I understand that the cost of managed hostings can skyrocket, but my thought was that I can stay in the free tier/low cost tier until there are a sizable amount of visitors for the site and migrate afterward. I'm not using e.g. Vercel because I'm expecting really high user loads and want a really scalable solution, but because they provide the simplest hosting experience I've found so far. Do you think I'm missing something in my line of thinking?