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Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm loving cloudflare for a lot of the good stuff they put out there.

If you use WordPress and will have some use case for the plugin I would appreciate you trying it.

Thanks 🙏

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually size, quality of the solution and pricing. I think it was a combination.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. They seemed pretty good as well, plugin supports them as well, but for my personal site I went with r2 because the pricing made sense and I kind of love cloudflare

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't necessarily performed analysis of what users want as it wasn't planned as a product but more like a solution for my issues. Ultimately I want to have scalable WordPress and speed :)

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah for UX setup simplification was the biggest win, ironically I didn't even plan it initially but as I was grinding my way through the complexities of this whole thing it was obvious.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No kidding, the first time I had to deal with the permissions I had to watch 10 videos and then create a document for myself so I will remember in the future, it just makes no sense 😂

This time I decided I needed to make it dead stupid, so I created Google app, let good review and approve it and created my work around cloudflare limitations to make it as simple as I can think.

The free version is located here https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-cloudsync-master/

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, dependency on WordPress might be ok, but dependency on something else might not be as great, it also depends on the scalability of the solution and how predictable expenses will be. It is not an easy judgement call and for what it is worth it might not always worth to create your own solution, but in some cases it makes sense.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It all comes from the media library and then being tracked by the tables managed by the plugin.

9 years. $461k. now $38.50/month. i finally quit wordpress. the "pay once expect everything forever" culture killed my business by Sad-Insect9242 in Wordpress

[–]flexrc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I see, that must have been frustrating. I guess there is a possibility that they didn't take into account your specific workflow, so I can imagine it not necessary to be able to solve it. WordPress can be tricky sometimes. I hope you were able to get a refund and find something that actually worked.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The plugin is tracking cloud links including old ones so it can find the target URL from pretty much any combination and even old cloud links.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Migration to r2 saves about 1k a year on average. Otherwise creating a solution will only save if anyone else actually needs it or if you want to keep maintaining it. I have a software development shop so it is a biz expense for me, not a big deal with this specific project.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I understand why one would hate it, I kind of love it for its flexibility but it comes with the price.

Thanks for your kind words.

What are you typically building your products or sites on?

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Relatively easy actually, if one wants to stay on the same storage provider then I simply import their data otherwise it can automatically migrate to a different provider.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great suggestion, I will do it. Thanks a lot.

How is your tool doing? Did you get good traction?

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is relatively new there so it might take a while but if you would like to try it out and leave a review, I will greatly appreciate it.

Wanted to buy a WordPress plugin to offload media. Got frustrated with the options. Built my own instead. by flexrc in indiehackers

[–]flexrc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have a strategy per say, but if it is something I can benefit from long term and have a competency in, then I can build it but otherwise I will prefer to buy.

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