Hello, I'm here to seek out a community of other #Disabled people and accomplices.
I'm working to build a non-profit tool to make alt text easier, and I want to connect with folks who can help guide that project toward a useful start.
I've built a proof of concept, but getting it further will take building community. I'm #Autistic, and networking does not come easy to me. Boosting this is an immense help.
More information at https://alt-text.org
@ajeremias The needs are less simple than just needing hosting. Some of the technologies the proof of concept relied upon in GCP don't have a 1:1 option elsewhere, among other issues.
Given the set of functionality that's needed and likely too resource-intensive to build for a small team, we're tied to some cloud provider. I'm not excited to work with any of them.
@ajeremias Sure, off the top of my head this has two major reliances on GCP:
1. Backend DB - We need a horizontally scalable backend database that supports multiple indices on a single table. Maintaining that is hard, and it goes 0-100 as far as cost to host yourself.
2. Rate Limiting - We'll need some fairly tight rate limiting to constrain abuse. Building that is *hard*
Aside from those there are also other places where I just don't think we'll have the support to build it ourselves.
Hannah Kolbeck 🏳️⚧️
Degrowth or Extinction
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