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cyclic.sh is the company blog at cyclic.sh, writing about startups, programming and systems. Since 2021, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Amazon AWS outage, a short story from the war room”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

27mentions?
13HN people?
2021–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 19 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Commenters mostly point to cyclic.sh as a free hosting service for Node.js and Express apps, a Heroku alternative with GitHub deploys. One linked a cyclic.sh post on writing clean code in a reading list.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Amazon AWS outage, a short story from the war room
    4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-03-24
  2. AWS Tools Suck
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-12-10
  3. How phishing scampages work and what they have to do with pizza – cyclic.sh
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-31
  4. /
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-26
  5. Write shitty code
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
  6. How to Fail at Serverless: Serverless Is Stateless – Cyclic.sh
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-11
  7. We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-09

What Hacker News says?

  1. Check out https://www.cyclic.sh/ Serious free tier, git push, serverless express.js plus AWS databases.

    Comment linking /

    on “Removal of Heroku free product plans”
  2. Submitted AWS S3: Sometimes you should press the $100k button as a story · 408 points

    HN discussion
  3. Since others are reflecting on the merits of the article in ways I agree with, here's some articles I've collected from recent discussions on "clean code". Some even try to ditch the term or argue against it, others give context to the meaning. Would love to see others if anyone has any! https://bitfieldconsulting.com/golang/crisp-code https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/ https://www.cyclic.sh/posts/write-shit…

    Comment linking /posts/write-shitty-code

    on “There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code”
  4. Submitted Write shitty code as a story · 154 points

    HN discussion
  5. Clickable links https://render.com/ - One of the top Heroku alternatives with a free plan to get started. https://fly.io/ - Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required. https://railway.app/ - Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software. https://www.cyclic.sh/ - Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting. https://qoddi.com/ - Qo…

    Comment linking /

    on “Heroku Free Alternatives”
  6. Submitted We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt as a story · 130 points

    HN discussion
  7. Only does Node.js currently but check out https://www.cyclic.sh . AWS DynamoDB is included in free tier

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: How do you deploy your weekend project in 2022?”
  8. Submitted AWS Tools Suck as a story · 118 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted We (devs) sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Amazon AWS outage, a short story from the war room as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted How phishing scampages work and what they have to do with pizza – cyclic.sh as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted How to Fail at Serverless: Serverless Is Stateless – Cyclic.sh as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How to deal with an AWS Outage at an American enterprise as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Its Always Sunny in AWS us-east-1: The gang does business continuity as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted AngelList Roll Up Vehicles: Why, What and How as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted AWS Tools Suck as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted How to Fail at Serverless: Serverless Is Stateles as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted AWS Outage Remediation – It's Always Sunny in US-EAST-1 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Technical Debt: A Field Guide as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Technical Debt: A Field Guide as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted AWS Tools Suck as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Cyclic Is Shutting Down as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted How phishing scampages work and what they have to do with pizza as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How phishing scampages work and what they have to do with pizza as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How to Debug – Cyclic.sh as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted The VC Business Model and Why VCs Invest – Cyclic.sh as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Its Always Sunny in us-east-1 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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