I'm working on https://www.chessfunforlittleones.com/ - an electronic book to introduce children to chess through LED lights, poems and some cute chracters.

I launched the kickstarter a month ago and am currently finalising the logistics for shipping the books out and putting together the shopify site which should launch at some point in April.

Hi there, thank you very much for your reply I really appreciate it, I will take all your feedback on board and see is I can get some traction helping that way :)

No light sensors - each page has a small magnet embedded within it at a certain place with the pcb having a Hall effect sensor at the corresponding location

fly.io i think - never tried it but HN feedback has been pretty positive on it

I have tried it and found it to be really really good. It's a little more DIY than Heroku, but not by too much. They are moving really fast too, hiring people to focus on specific use cases (Laravel, Rails, etc.)

If you're making heavy use of Heroku addons, you'll probably miss that quite a bit.

I've tried it for a small project. It's about as easy to use as Heroku.

Fly is really good. If you go over the free tier limits by under $5 they don't charge too, which gives a bit more flexibility on hobby projects.

Have been using mogenius.com, they have a pretty generous free tier and lots of cloud-native features

It has potential, the VMM is a bit Rusty...

Ok, that was terrible.

my apologies, seeing modern VMMs actually get used for once always hits different.

OK, but if you do it again we're converting to QEMU.

from Fly.io to Bye.io in one simple trick..

Pretty frustrated by this. I run a UAT instance on heroku free which I will now need to start paying for effectively doubling my cloud cost. Think i will migrate to fly.io instead which I guess is what they want to happen

That's correct, they do not want people getting service and not paying for it.