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KeepTheScore Blog
Company blog · keepthescore.co/blogprogrammingbusiness
KeepTheScore Blog is the company blog at keepthescore.co, writing about programming and business. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog by the KeepTheScore developer on running costs, infrastructure, analytics and a production database deletion postmortem. Comments mostly cite or mention it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Create an online scoreboard in seconds. Perfect for any sport, streaming to OBS/Streamlabs, or displaying on TVs. Real-time updates, no downloads required.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-25
- /blog/posts/monetizing-keepthescore/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-18
What Hacker News says?
This ends with the author promoting his new 'bootstrapped app': https://keepthescore.co/ That website uses Google Analytics!
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on “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast”Submitted We deleted the production database by accident as a story · 446 points
HN discussionThe lack of the seriousness/professionalism of the postmortem seemed odd to me too. So, okay, what is this site? > KeepTheScore is an online software for scorekeeping. Create your own scoreboard for up to 150 players and start tracking points. It's mostly free and requires no user account. And also: > Sat Sep 5, 2020, Running Keepthescore.co costs around 171 USD each month, whilst the revenue is close to zero (we do…
Comment linking /blog/posts/monetizing-keepthescore/
on “We deleted the production database by accident”Submitted Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users as a story · 289 points
HN discussionIt's just one guy working in the evening on a side project. There's no revenue, and it runs on $171/month [1]. He's not going to hire anyone. [1] https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/monetizing-keepthescore/
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on “We deleted the production database by accident”Submitted Blue-green deployment for a small webapp as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis. Here is a great post on it from a fellow indie-hacker: https://casparwre.de/blog/launching-a-product-without-a-logi... He built https://keepthescore.co/ precisely with this in mind.
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on “The Joy of Small Projects”Submitted Keep the score online as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe FAQ [0] still says it costs 15 EUR per month, you should update it. [0] https://keepthescore.co/about/
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on “Costs of running a Python webapp for 55k monthly users”He does say, but: https://keepthescore.co/
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on “Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits”