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Day 9 of Building Crowdwide — I Almost Let It Sleep for 8-10 Days 💀

Puneet-Kumar2010 on October 11, 2026

So today is day 9 of building Crowdwide?? I don't feel like I'm going to write any code today. All features are done, all are working good! UI po...
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Harun - solo dev •

Hey Puneet! Just a heads up, the Crowdwide site is currently showing a 'This service has been suspended by its owner' error. It looks like a hosting account pause or billing limit on your end. Let me know if you need me to help communicate this to the community while you get it sorted!

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Puneet-Kumar2010 •

bro its working

i just checked...
url is also same as old one: crowdwide.run.place
Maybe it's a network issue
Also, i just received the newsletter which means it live

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Harun - solo dev •

glad to hear it's back up and running, puneet! it was probably just a temporary cdn cache hiccup or a local network blip on my end.

awesome that the newsletter is live too. keep up the great build-in-public momentum! 🐯🚀

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Puneet-Kumar2010 •

maybe the hosting limits are acting up again. I'm keeping backup options ready, so hopefully Crowdwide won't stay down for long haha. really appreciate you looking out for it and offering to help communicate with the community

thanks for checking and letting me know also, you mentioned something about talking in DMs earlier... I'm online now, whenever you're available

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Harun - solo dev •

hey puneet! no worries at all. honestly, keeping the conversation right here in the comments is great for the build-in-public journey anyway—it helps other devs see how we troubleshoot these hosting hiccups together!

if you ever want to bounce ideas around hosting workarounds, ci/cd, or just swap dev stories, feel free to tag me or reply here. always happy to be a sounding board.

keep crushing it with crowdwide! 🐯🚀

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Puneet-Kumar2010 •

yesss exactly!! honestly, hosting issues are part of the solo dev experience at this point and sharing how we deal with them might help someone else too! really appreciate the support, Harun!! 🐯 definitely might tag you when I run into something interesting haha 🤠

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Ivan Annovazzi •

lol the two-account free tier shuffle to keep Crowdwide alive is the most resourceful 0 budget move I've seen in a while. What happens when both accounts burn through their 750 hours though, does it go down for real then?

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Puneet-Kumar2010 •

same service on multiple accounts can cause suspension or maybe even a permanent hold!

so... i won't go that way.

i have two accounts, so i'll use those two emails to create accounts on two other free hosting platforms and set up the same thing there.

but tbh, i don't think 10 users will burn through 750 hours × 2 that quickly lol.

but if they somehow do, i have the above plan ready!

and about the domain...

when we host a site on different platforms, we get subdomains like .onrender.com, .netlify.app, .vercel.app, etc.

so i found a site where you can get free domains like .work.gd, .run.place, etc.

to keep the user experience consistent, i'll temporarily move those domains too.

and to make shifting faster, i've already made environment groups, so it's basically copy-paste! i can also export them directly in .env format.

so yeah, i've already thought about this while figuring out how to keep Crowdwide alive without spending money lol. just cruel developer things, never letting my application sleep lol.

if anyone wants to know about the free domain site, i can share that too!

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Jason Y. (dev_in_the_fog) •

Such a clean explanation of a nuanced problem. Bookmarking this for reference, thanks for sharing!

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Puneet-Kumar2010 •

Thank you so much!! 😭❤️ Glad you found it useful!! That's exactly why I'm sharing this journey, so others can learn from the things I'm figuring out along the way!!