You can - right click and press "Replay XHR", which will resend the request as is.

You can replay XHR in Chrome, but in Firefox you can edit/resend any request (XHR, image, et al.)

Editing the request isn't as accessible though and I often need to tweak requests.

I hope it does

I have a link to one of my other projects on the site - https://duetapp.com

Beyond that, I don't really have any specific plans to monetize.

Makes sense. What would you want to see in that regard beyond what's already on the site? It currently shows last commit and release date, and that date is green for projects with recent releases...

Some sense of how widely adopted the software is. There is a critical mass required for me to commit to an OSS. Before that critical mass the products are usually poorly maintained and full of bugs and security holes.

You've stumbled on the python list: https://lucidindex.com/python

It's not 'technically' part of selfhostedsource, but there's one database shared between selfhostedsource and lucidindex so it's pretty easy to get results from other lists

Lucid Index will eventually index all the 'awesome' lists, but there are a few others already functioning here: https://lucidindex.com

Ah, this makes much more sense, thank you for the clarification. :)

Bug. It should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

It's the same list, just searchable, with some extra meta information scraped from the github repos and the project websites

Definitely the traffic. Wasn't expecting the front page. Working on it now.

I'd highly recommend Solr[0] for searching to cut down the load. Or, if this is a static site, you could use Lunr[1] to have an efficient search that runs on the client. Is this site OSS?

[0] https://lucene.apache.org/solr/

[1] https://lunrjs.com/

Thank you. I will check out Solr. I'm using Elasticsearch currently for the readmes, but I disabled it while troubleshooting so it's currently just searching on titles and descriptions via mysql. I will re-enable elasticsearch later and figure out how to better optimize it for future traffic.

Ah, then there's no need to check out Solr! They both use the same backend search engine called Lucene.

Is the site self-hosted?

Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant).

At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.

I know a lot of people here don't like Cloudflare, but they provide a solution to the "HN hug of death" mentioned above for free.

Whenever you expect to get a traffic spike, you can always turn proxying on for a day or two and turn it off afterwards.

Does the HN crowd not like Cloudflare? If that's the case, why not?

Most of the "HN crowd" like cloudflare a lot, as it's quite convenient, especially for personal projects. There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons: taking down too much, not taking down enough, centralization, etc.

> There are a few very vocal people who dislike it for all kinds of reasons [...]

I'll have to agree, there are few but very vocal.

Privacy. Cloudfare-users hand a lot of their clients' data to a third party.

They terminate TLS for you.

They can, although they support end-to-end encryption as well.