The monthly cost of a platform like Launchy is very, very low. Let’s say $5 or $10 for a VPS (hetzner for example), and maybe $1 a month for email through Plunk - that’s it.
Here is the details:
- Asking price, non-negotiable: 3K euros.
- Revenue generated for the current month: $324 (October 1 is the date the $19 submission was implemented)
- Unique visitors for the current month of October: 2.1k.
- DR 70
- Work time required: none, except for responding to potential emails.
- Full admin dashboard and everything is automated
The system is designed with multiple layers of privacy and security:
- IP Hashing:
One-way SHA-256 hashing with environmental salt ; Original IPs are never stored, only hashes ; Even with server access, original IPs can't be recovered; Server memory only processes hashes, never stores raw IPs
- Per-Category Anonymity: Different poster IDs per category using separate salts ; Double-hashing mechanism: first for global ID, then for category-specific ID ; Cross-category correlation is mathematically impossible ; Each context generates a unique, unrelated identifier
- Technical Assistance Compliance: I can provide hashed data and salting mechanisms; I can track specific hashed IPs if required; I can ban users without knowing their real IPs; But I technically cannot reverse the hashes to original IPs
The system balances legal compliance with user privacy - I can assist investigations through hash matching while maintaining technical inability to reverse-identify users.
This is not about avoiding compliance, it's about responsible data minimization. The architecture ensures I can't provide what I don't have, while still maintaining effective moderation capabilities.
A moderation system has already been set up and used for several bans, and it works well. If there are more and more visits, I'll recruit someone for 24/7!
Thanks for your feedback and just to respond to you: As I said below, after several returns I've updated the site and removed the automatic deletion feature after 24h but I'm thinking of adding an option when creating a post.