Baby Birth Announcements, Serverless
A friend shared how he set up a web application to inform the parents minute-by-minute, during the arrival of his baby. ๐ถ
I thought that was a brilliant idea!
This way, new parents can push updates to folks, and avoid the thundering of โhas the baby arrived yet?โ questions. ๐ก
So, I set about trying to build one, with the following criteria:
- I don't want to spend time and money maintaining any infrastructure. ๐ฐ
- I would like to be able to limit the site's visibility to folks I share it with. ใ๏ธ
- I don't need updates to be โreal-timeโ; Some delay or latency is fine. ๐
- Building it should be fun! ๐ฎ
โWhy don't you just post it on Twitter/X?โ
I also wanted to avoid social media for such announcements, if possible.
How did it go?
I ended up with:
- the site hosted on https://write.as