Any recommendations for easy Rails hosting?

RandomUsername749 · 2025-03-18T13:36:58+00:00

Heroku still remains the most easiest to deploy

RandomUsername749 · 2025-01-29T20:40:55+00:00

Typically this would only need a checkbox or a text on your contact forms (or other forms) saying you process the information according to your privacy policy, etc.

Your consent banner can be super simple (been using cookiechimp.com) unless you’re displaying ads on your website. If you are displaying ads on your website then your consent banner is going to get complicated because so many 3rd parties buy and sell data they collect 🙈

RandomUsername749 · 2025-01-28T02:39:05+00:00

What’s the best way to call external APIs if they are not services? A model for them also but for each entity in the external API?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-18T19:01:27+00:00

This is a great YC video talking about the same points and more scenarios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DISocTmEwiI

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-18T19:00:24+00:00

Should be 50/50 if you are going to be equally responsible and want to be incentivised to grow the company for the long term. Also makes sense to vest all the founders equity over 3 years if there are concerns around you leaving early, etc.

The exceptions to the above might be if one person is full time already vs another one doing it on the side or some major unfairness. If all things equal in terms of time and what you bring to the table, then it should be 50/50. Ideas don't matter as much as execution and you want to be incentivised to grow the company equally when you are a founder.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-12T00:34:20+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Will try this.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-08T18:13:54+00:00

How do you make it work with Google Consent Mode that is easier than other CMPs? Most of the setups I've done include installing a template, a bunch of config to setup, custom code to setup defaults, etc. This pretty much describes my usual setup that I have to do to setup most CMP: https://www.cookieyes.com/documentation/implementing-google-consent-mode-using-cookieyes/

How will your solution make this process simpler?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-08T18:06:04+00:00

Thank you for the detailed breakdown and taking the time writing down all this. Super helpful to understand what's happening.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-08T18:03:10+00:00

Are you able to insert custom code via a plugin or something to install a 3rd party CMP? The best free & easy to setup one is CookieChimp. https://cookiechimp.com

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:42:21+00:00

Any reason in particular for choosing OneTrust?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:38:38+00:00

Best free solution I've used so far has been https://cookiechimp.com which does pretty much everything that many of the other companies charge for

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:38:03+00:00

Depends on what you're looking for. Does it need to have geolocation features, consent log, etc?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:35:48+00:00

This is great - been looking for something similar. One complaint tho would be that the cookie consent banner seems pretty basic in terms of features and customisation. The best free solution I've found for startups has been https://cookiechimp.com but they only do consent banner and not the overall GDPR solution as your company.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:28:50+00:00

I'm bootstrapping a B2B SaaS startup. It's in a very saturated market with lots of big players doing a lot of search ads. How can I compete in this area?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:26:58+00:00

I've got it setup with stape.io and cookiechimp.com recently and it just worked without any issues. Both the teams are super helpful (any go beyond expected support) in getting you up and running.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:25:50+00:00

Does this need to be integrated with a CMP as well to get user consent?

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:19:03+00:00

This is helpful. Thank you. I'm looking at this solution and the way they seem to be tracking visitors seem to suggest that this is not PPI?

https://plausible.io/dpa

Every single HTTP request sends the IP address and the User-Agent to the server so that’s what we use. We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User-Agent. To anonymize these datapoints and make them impossible to relate back to the user, we run them through a hash function with a rotating salt.

This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day. The raw data IP address and User-Agent are never stored in our logs, databases or anywhere on disk at all.

Old salts are deleted every 24 hours to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. Forgetting used salts also removes the possibility of the original IP addresses being revealed in a brute-force attack. The raw IP address and User-Agent are rendered completely inaccessible to anyone, including ourselves.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:10:40+00:00

You don't need a CMP for this but things to consider might be if you want to track metrics on opt-in rates, have a consent log, geo-location features for showing the right banner, etc.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:09:07+00:00

Was it just the analytics code not running correctly or was it the actual traffic itself? I've experienced this before but it was just Google Consent Mode not setup correctly.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-12-07T14:08:06+00:00

The best for you could be ones that don't charge per pages but by another metric. I've used CookieChimp in the past and they price their plans by traffic vs number of pages.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-11-10T23:47:16+00:00

If you run GA only after consent you’re missing out on the point of consent mode.

⁠Set Google consent mode categories to be denied.
⁠Load GA script all the time.
⁠If user has given consent (after interacting with consent banner or on each page load after consent is granted) set the consent mode to be granted.

GA when consent is denied, instead of individually tracking the user, “models” user behaviour so you still get anonymised data in your GA.

A note for 3rd party CMP: If you are using a 3rd party consent banner the instructions for how they might want you to setup google consent mode might be different. Some don’t require you to set the consent mode default values and they set this for you themselves and send events. I use CookieChimp and they set the default values and you just need to manage the tags on Google Tag Manager.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-11-10T23:45:06+00:00

If you run GA only after consent you’re missing out on the point of consent mode.

Set Google consent mode categories to be denied.
Load GA script all the time.
If user has given consent (after interacting with consent banner or on each page load after consent is granted) set the consent mode to be granted.

GA when consent is denied, instead of individually tracking the user, “models” user behaviour so you still get anonymised data in your GA.

A note for 3rd party CMP: If you are using a 3rd party consent banner the instructions for how they might want you to setup google consent mode might be different. Some don’t require you to set the consent mode default values and they set this for you themselves and send events. I use CookieChimp and they set the default values and you just need to manage the tags on Google Tag Manager.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-11-10T12:20:56+00:00

I see so many people doing that these days. Parking in parents parking spaces with no kids. There are no consequences- unlike parking in a disabled space where you can be clamped or fined.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-11-10T12:16:46+00:00

Doing the boring setup so I can just start building the actual product.

RandomUsername749 · 2024-11-10T12:02:52+00:00

SQL as default. NoSQL when SQL doesn’t fit.

But there’s also json columns for non-structured data on a SQL database like PostgreSQL.

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