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So with all the reddit alternative discussions and talk about small scale applications, I thougt about

what's the best way to host images and videos in a low disk space environment?

I'm thinking of the hobbyist, small network, federated thingies etc.

A nginx module maybe that could track incoming requests to media files and mark them with their latest access time. If the image or video wasn't accessed for a couple of weeks or months, it'll be deleted. If that's a feasible thing to do for a nginx, or other webserver module. Maybe just scraping and checking the access logs would be enough. Every webserver would probably have some kind of access log anyway.

Or would it only be sensible to bake that functionality into the app? But how would I keep track of external, direct visits to the media files or a shared link somewhere else, that wasn't clicked from the app interface? I feel like external visits should be accounted for as well.

Was wondering what some of you would come up with.

After a long time just silently reading, I decided to become a little more active and ask this here:

Where could I find/hire people for the following kinds of projects

- a libreoffice xslt export style sheet (for my mother) - a CSS parser with bison and flex compiled with an AST written in zig :-) - a single-person flat-file matrix server :-))

These are examples of projects I want to do, either for myself or someone else. It's not paid work for me and I just want those projects to be done and be open source.

After almost two decades of trying out things for myself and teaching myself programming that way, I grew tired of that and just want to get on with the projects I have in mind without wasting hours away on tasks that someone else could have solved for me way faster. (especially with the libreoffice xslt project, because the xslt export filter stuff just isn't documented anywhere)

It's not really a matter of how much it would cost me, since I just want to get those projects done and go on from there. That (hopefully) doesn't take that much people-hours that I'd come out broke from there. :-)

I've heard about upwork and fiverr and the like. But I don't know which of those platforms would give me the least amount of trouble with finding people for that sort of tasks. Or if I should go about this completely different, I don't know. Need some input and guidance.

Or do I have to found a non-profit VC and ask on HN for hire? :-)