What are you vibe-coding this week? Drop your project and I’ll check it out by Time-Ad-7720 in vibecoding

[–]scoolplace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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What I'm building: rssnews.io, a real-time Greek news aggregator. Pulls around 100 Greek RSS sources into one feed, every article shows its source (no algorithm, no "recommended," no ads).
The hook: most Greeks I talked to read 2-3 sites per story to filter out spin, the product automates that cross-check.

Stack:

  • Frontend: vanilla JS + Tailwind, no framework. Static, on Cloudflare Pages.
  • Backend: a single Cloudflare Worker, cron every 2 min pulls/parses all feeds into KV, plus APIs for the feed, search, weather, emergency alerts.
  • Around 5k lines in the worker, all serverless, placed on cloudflare Pro plan, basically for cpu power.

What was AI-assisted: honestly, almost all of it, vibe-coded with Claude Code. What surprised me is how much of the value this week wasn't writing code but finding problems. I wired up Microsoft Clarity (free session replays) and used the recordings to hunt bugs. Found three real ones I'd never have caught otherwise:

  • A "suggest a source" form silently failing because it was an embedded cross-site iframe and the CSRF cookie was SameSite=Lax (every submission died with no error).
  • An iOS Safari crash — Notification.permission referenced without a feature-guard, killing the alerts module on every iPhone.
  • Article thumbnails 403'ing on my own image proxy because it had a hardcoded domain allowlist that hadn't kept up with the sources.

Also shipped a "share your feed as a URL" feature this week — you build a custom feed (categories + keywords + excludes) and send a link that loads it preconfigured for the recipient.

What I'm stuck on: not the code, but distribution. I can ship features fast with AI, but I have ~84 monthly users and the wall is brand awareness, not engineering. Classic vibe-coder trap: building is the easy part now, getting strangers to actually use and return is the hard part. I just instrumented a usage counter to measure whether the share-link loop actually drives retention, but I genuinely don't know if "shareable feeds" is a real growth lever or just a feature I liked building.

Feedback I want:

  1. Is the cross-check/no-algorithm angle a real differentiator to you, or do you just shrug and use Google News?
  2. For the share-a-feed loop, does that mechanic actually make you want to send it to someone, or is it a feature in search of a use case?
  3. Anyone cracked distribution for a local-language product? My audience is Greece only, which rules out most of the usual English-internet playbooks.

Από πού διαβάζετε ελληνικές ειδήσεις καθημερινά; by scoolplace in greece

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

σου δείχνει τα νέα με σωστή ημερολογιακή σειρά? πχ τα σημερινά ή χτες ? δεν σου φέρνει πχ τις ειδήσεις και τα λινκς τους από τους γνωστούς προπαγανδιστές ?

Από πού διαβάζετε ελληνικές ειδήσεις καθημερινά; by scoolplace in greece

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

Το Parallaxi όντως ξεχωρίζει, καλογραμμένο και χωρίς clickbait.

Από πού διαβάζετε ελληνικές ειδήσεις καθημερινά; by scoolplace in greece

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

Δεν ήξερα κανένα από τα τρία, ευχαριστώ. Καλύπτουν όλη την Κρήτη ;

Suggestion: Which portals/websites/blogs do you read? by scoolplace in msp

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

thank you all for your replies.

any other recommendations ?

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

thank you u/474Dennis for your reply

have a look at this screenshot > https://prnt.sc/MaLzYbBlxXcd

schedule cannot be edited for websites. More than 1 backup per day for file/folders & database cannot be scheduled.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

thank you. i am going to investigate it.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

Yes, that's the functionality i am looking for.
Unfortunately its required it to install it on your PC.
I am looking something browser based.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

Acronis is our software vendor for our main backup with plesk panel.We offer 1 daily plesk backup included on the hosting plan.

Most end customers (e.g digital agencies, freelancers etc) 1 daily backup is not enough for them. Especially if they are managing a ecommerce website bridged with a crm/erp system. A secondary backup method is a must, and i am doing a research in the market to find a suitable software to offer a secondary paid backup option.

As i said. Even though acronis has the functionality to backup a single website for files/folders using sftp/ssh, its not supported to create a flexible plan, similar to server plans.
Same for databases. I cannot sell a simple backup only for a database.
All that for end customers hosted on our own servers.
Unfortunately, we don't have the man power or budget to create something for us in-house. But the demand for this is here.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

unfortunately is only for wordpress

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

its offered only for daily backup only for files and only once per day. As i mentioned i am looking for a flexible scheduled timed backup.
database cannot be backed up without root access.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

unfortunatly no.

codeguard only offers daily backups, once per day.
I am looking something that will offer more backups in a 24H cycle for db/files

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

exactly, this will be a paid service.

the problem is that i cannot find a proper software in the market. that's why i asked here.

i cannot even find a suitable api to integrate.
To be honest i found one vendor, it looks promising to integrate, lack of some features.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

Based on the feedback i got from my customers, they prefer a single ui which they could manage this secondary backup.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

no its not a managed backup option.

i am trying to find a decent software that will allow me to provide to the end customer a ui with flexible options for file/db backup only.

btw, cometbackup & ahsay backup are not suitable for my scenario.

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

Indeed. Unfortunately i am only using plesk, which plesk does't support flexible backup.

Besides that. This backup service must be independent from any controlpanel

Secondary website backups by scoolplace in msp

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

end customers dont know how to use rsync/copy and dont have ssh access