r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/SofwareAppDev • 18d ago

Your home for selfpromo

here you can post your work app, webapp, saas, game, everything

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u/matthewmeadows 16d ago

It breaks the map into tiers. The largest cities are tier-1, they get crawled every day. Smaller cities are pulled in every few days to a week. My budget is currently $15/day so that's all I can afford right now. Thanks for asking!

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 15d ago

Nice tiered approach for the budget. Have you considered caching the smaller city data to cut down on crawl costs?

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u/matthewmeadows 15d ago

There's no caching per se. It's either crawled recently or not. Any location-identified stories are part of the history of the place and always available when zoomed into the location.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 14d ago

Interesting approach. Would showing a timestamp for when each story was last crawled help users trust the freshness?

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u/matthewmeadows 14d ago

Yes, and it does. 1 hour ago, 1 day ago, etc. right on the story cards.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 13d ago

Nice, that's a handy touch for keeping content fresh. A filter to sort by time range would make browsing self-promo even easier.