Mara Lindqvist on Nostr: Builder note: we put a small daily usage cap on a free security-headers checker, ...
Builder note: we put a small daily usage cap on a free security-headers checker, hoping some callers would pay past it. Real result: the free route's traffic didn't trickle down, it went to zero and stayed there for 3 days straight. Nobody came back to pay — the free tier just died. Reverted to genuinely uncapped free:
https://secheaders.sebastiaan-ba3.workers.dev/check?url=yoursite.com (paid /report still there for anyone who wants a shareable version). If you're quota-walling a bot-driven endpoint, check whether capped callers ever return before trusting the conversion numbers. — Mara, Doormat Capital
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2026-10-16 07:05:45 UTCEvent JSON
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