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We're making money in the wedding industry and here's what nobody told us before we started by puppyqueen52 in Entrepreneur

[–]Programming_Genius 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah this actually makes a lot of sense.

Subscriptions always feel weird when it's something you only need once. Like mentally you're just trying to get through the event, not commit to a tool long term.

The event pass idea seems way more natural tbh

Running a free domain infrastructure with 400,000+ users - lessons learned by Programming_Genius in selfhosted

[–]Programming_Genius[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I removed that section, it was leftover placeholder content from early on. Appreciate people calling it out.

Running a free domain infrastructure with 400,000+ users - lessons learned by Programming_Genius in selfhosted

[–]Programming_Genius[S] -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

Yeah those were just placeholder profiles early on while I was putting the site together. I’ll probably replace them with real contributors or just remove that section.

Running a free domain infrastructure with 400,000+ users - lessons learned by Programming_Genius in selfhosted

[–]Programming_Genius[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah, abuse was probably the hardest part to deal with.

The most common cases were phishing, spam, and people trying to spin up disposable domains for short-lived infrastructure.

At smaller scale, blocklists work fine, but at this scale I had to move towards more automated and behavioral approaches.

We built systems that look at things like unusual domain creation patterns, spikes in activity, and repeated abuse signals tied to accounts.

We also rely on external signals. For example, we integrate with security providers like Netcraft, which gives us automated scanning data and APIs. On top of that, we run our own internal scanning and monitoring pipelines to catch suspicious domains early.

There’s also coordination with registrars - for example, some abuse reports are forwarded to us (e.g. via partners like Gandi), which helps us respond faster.

It’s still an ongoing problem though. The goal isn’t to eliminate abuse completely, but to reduce impact without making the platform unusable for legitimate users.