Hacker News: ashleyhindle

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees"

ashleyhindle — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:43:57 +0000

Using Cloudflare here has been an interesting learning curve, coming from Laravel and go

And still not 100% sure if the sharding is the correct approach, but load-testing is promising so far

Show HN: Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees

ashleyhindle — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:20:39 +0000

Howdy HN, Ashley here.

Most of my projects use realtime, but the jump from 'free' to 'paid' on existing platforms stressed me out, and I didn’t want to self-host soketi or sockudo.

So I built Vask, a websocket platform built on top of Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, KV storage, and analytics engine, so I can get sort-of infinitely scalable, low latency, and low-cost websockets.

I noticed that ‘fan-out’ is pretty cheap with Cloudflare, so Vask can bill per message sent rather than message received (no fan-out cost), which is great for certain workloads, and quite different to existing platforms.

Some limitations still right now in v1: no event webhooks yet (next month), no encrypted channels yet, and our enterprise/SOC2 story is "maybe later". Currently free for local development forever, with paid tiers for production.

Would love any and all feedback - especially from anyone running Pusher or similar at scale. What would stop you switching? What are people self-hosting nowadays?

I made a no-signup HN demo here if you want to give it a test-drive without creating an account:

https://vask.dev/showhn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022892

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"

ashleyhindle — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:26:23 +0000

This is so great

How is it volume wise while it's working? Manageable or painful?

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery"

ashleyhindle — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:10:00 +0000

That worked beautifully - thanks!

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery"

ashleyhindle — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:44:37 +0000

Same here

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

ashleyhindle — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:53:06 +0000

Whisp [1] - Pure* PHP SSH server specifically designed for devs to build fun TUIs

Ended up having to write a decent chunk of C using FFI mind, no wonder people write SSH servers in Go/C, and why every AI tool told me it's really difficult and shouldn't be done :D

Bit of fun though, and I know more than I would ever want to know about the SSH protocol now!

- [1] https://github.com/whispphp/whisp

Show HN: Dino running game from Chrome over SSH

ashleyhindle — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:45:43 +0000

Want to play the dino run game over SSH?

I wrote an SSH server from scratch, and to test its capabilities I rebuilt the Chrome dinosaur running game as a terminal based game :D

Give it a try by SSHing:

ssh whisp.fyi -t dinorun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400081

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I Got Roasted by AI

ashleyhindle — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:36:05 +0000

Lost my job yesterday, so figured I'd get AI to roast me. It's dumb, but fun

You can get roasted by AI too if you can click buttons :) Have a gander!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42665762

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Achieve more with silent coworking (Deep Work Den)

ashleyhindle — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:02:58 +0000

Howdy!

I get more work done when I'm body doubling - my brain is odd like that - so I built a nifty silent coworking website where you share your deep work commitments with others in the room.

Most other coworking systems need registration, use video & audio and require scheduling, but I'm a simple impatient man.

I also wanted to experiment with a new websocket system, a new OpenGraph API system, and document picture in picture, so I built Deep Work Den last weekend and I've been using it every day since.

I've linked to the den I'm working in right now, but you can setup your own and invite friends/colleagues too if you fancy.

Does body doubling help you? Is focusmate / thesukha 30 times better? :D

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42212534

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server"

ashleyhindle — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:29:59 +0000

This is the exact reason I built Fodor: https://fodor.xyz - it lets you easily setup GitHub projects on DigitalOcean so it truly is one~ click (usually about 4, but hey pretty good?)

You add a fodor.json file, add a link to Fodor and it makes it super easy to get it setup for yourself

Improve your logging: How to setup Graylog2 and get logs into it

ashleyhindle — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:42:46 +0000

Article URL: http://ashleyhindle.com/how-to-setup-graylog2-and-get-logs-into-it/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065939

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL"

ashleyhindle — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:28:03 +0000

My Conference Is On Fire - Frontend for Twilio conferencing system

https://github.com/ashleyhindle/myconferenceisonfire

https://conference.ashleyhindle.com

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: Instant Spotify - Search Spotify songs using Google keyword suggestions"

ashleyhindle — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 10:03:47 +0000

This is really nice. I had to be logged in to the web player for the play button to work, but once I did it's a great experience.

Nice work!

How to setup the headless three: PHPUnit, Selenium 2, and ChromeDriver

ashleyhindle — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:52:22 +0000

Article URL: http://ashleyhindle.com/how-to-setup-headless-selenium-with-chromdriver-for-phpunit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10979555

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashleyhindle in "What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?"

ashleyhindle — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:49:46 +0000

Thanks for your input. I didn't realise Ansible had added that in 1.9, that's really awesome.

What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?

ashleyhindle — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ashleyhindle/addkeysfrompublic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10930834

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Please share how you work

ashleyhindle — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:27:49 +0000

Article URL: http://submit.howiwork.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620321

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashleyhindle in "howiwork.xyz – discover, and share, how people work"

ashleyhindle — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:58:40 +0000

I'd love it if you could share your story at http://submit.howiwork.xyz - this really interests lots of people (especially me!)

Hacker News: ashleyhindle

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees"

Show HN: Vask – Pusher-compatible WebSockets on Cloudflare, no fan-out fees

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery"

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Tldx – CLI tool for fast domain name discovery"

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

Show HN: Dino running game from Chrome over SSH

Show HN: I Got Roasted by AI

Show HN: Achieve more with silent coworking (Deep Work Den)

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server"

Improve your logging: How to setup Graylog2 and get logs into it

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL"

New comment by ashleyhindle in "Show HN: Instant Spotify - Search Spotify songs using Google keyword suggestions"

How to setup the headless three: PHPUnit, Selenium 2, and ChromeDriver

New comment by ashleyhindle in "What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?"

What are the downsides to this bash script for SSH keys?

Please share how you work

New comment by ashleyhindle in "howiwork.xyz – discover, and share, how people work"

howiwork.xyz – discover, and share, how people work

Show HN: MyConferenceIsOnFire – Simple Twilio conference call system