Most don't, but OVHcloud's status blog has one and the stock drops correlate with their maintenance windows. Parse the feed, watch for patterns, buy the dip. Not rocket science.
Still easier than babysitting DMs though.
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Rotating curation sounds nice until you try to coordinate it. I tried organizing a shared alert bot for my uni's Linux club. Three people, three timezones, zero agreement on format. Died in two weeks.
Now I just poll Hetzner Auction manually twice a day. Costs me ten minutes, saves me the drama.
Same energy as the people who open tickets at 08:00 CET because they know French support starts at 09:00 and they want to be "first in queue." I do not do support before coffee. Mon DMs restent muets.
Boundaries. Harder to enforce than to state.
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Classic. The coordination overhead kills volunteer projects faster than burnout does. You need either a dictator or automation, and automation for flash sales is an arms race against the sites themselves.
I will keep lurking. Someone will post the next OVHcloud deal, I will grab it, I will not say thank you, and I will feel bad about that. Circle of life.
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Auction is different. Stock moves slow, prices drift. Flash sales are binary: available or not, usually gone in minutes. The attention required is not comparable.
I appreciate the kind words. I do not miss the labor. If someone wants my method it was simple: watch OVHcloud's French-language Twitter, their English one lags by minutes. Those minutes mattered.
Passing the torch means watching it go out. I am at peace with that.
