Readit Newsforsaken commented on Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS plausible.io/blog/buildin... · Posted by u/markosaric
I've been using Plausible for https://www.nslookup.io for about a month now. I can definitely recommend it over Google Analytics. Simpler, more intuitive and privacy first.
However, at some point I'd like to monetize this site. I know there's https://www.ethicalads.io/, but they've limited their target audience to developers. Are there any privacy focused ad networks?
NSLookup definitely looks like a fit for us at EthicalAds. You can ping me at the email in my bio and we can get you signed up.
We need a way to unit test documentation to see if the code snippets still compile and the things that are referenced still exist.
Sphinx supports this for Python: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/extensions/doctes...
forsaken commented on Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI jordan-wright.com/blog/po... · Posted by u/mef
One of the PyPI maintainers noted:
> This is a great approach to detecting malicious code execution in Python packages.
> ... anyone want to fund making this part of @pypi?
https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1327121326734241797
I think this is an obvious place that someone in the ecosystem could apply money and make their supply chain (and everyone else's) safer.
forsaken commented on Oregon becomes first state to legalize psychedelic mushrooms oregonlive.com/politics/2... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Bigger one to me is decriminalizing all personal amounts of drugs: https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/oregon-decrimina...
We're trying to build an ad network that stands in stark opposition to Google's tracking: https://www.ethicalads.io/advertising-vision/ -- it's still early days, but we're always look for more OSS projects and products to join.
forsaken commented on Announcing EthicalAds: a privacy-focused ad network for developers ethicalads.io/blog/2020/0... · Posted by u/forsaken
Are you doing anything about the computing footprint of ads themselves? I often end up blocking ads because of the sheer amount of Javascript bloat they load, which often slows down my light-weight laptops/phones. I would be less opposed to blocking them if they were a simple image and link.
Our javascript is super small in terms of loading the ad, and we don't allow advertisers to add their own JS. So it shouldn't effect performance at all.
You can see our JS here: https://github.com/readthedocs/ethical-ad-client/blob/master...
Couple of thoughts and questions:
1. When submitting to HN the front page probably isn't the best thing. The blog post at https://www.ethicalads.io/blog/2020/12/ethicalads-newsletter... seems more interesting to me because you detail the number of ads, publishers, and revenue. It's much more likely to generate interest and discussion.
2. Classic two-sided market problem in that you need to attract advertisers and publishers to the network and there's no incentive to take the risk of joining. Any thoughts on how to make the network more attractive to publishers and advertisers?
3. Really like the focus on a niche audience (developers), at least as a starting point. There's probably an answer to #2 above.
4. Are there plans to increase the contextual awareness of the ads? E.g. if the publisher is focus on front end tools (e.g. react) might be able to tailor the ads on that site to more front-end relevant advertisements.
2. Luckily we run our largest publisher, which is how we seeded the market. Now we are doing the classic balancing act on both sides
3. Yep -- it helps :)
4. Yea, we do keyword-targeted ads: https://ethical-ad-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#page-spe... -- this allows publishers to target the ads based on content of the pages.
Thanks for the feedback/questions! Maybe I should also do a Show HN: to get more ideas.