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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T13:39:34.000Z",
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  "textContent": "For self hosting, I don’t have plans for it as of now to be honest. It would take a massive amount of time to prepare and support, which in the end would take away from all the others more important and exciting features I already have planned.\n\nI completely understand that it can feel pricy, I know it sucks but it is also like that for a reason. Being just a “location app” is what makes it tricky though. When you get the plan, you are actually paying for other users as well and the nature of the app is that it runs in the background non stop. So even if you don’t look at the app, it is still active.\n\nAlso just as an example, Paralino’s plans are still way cheaper than Life360’s plans. And they monetise your data back and forth as a bonus.\n\nRegarding updating every 1s + manual requests being free, phew, that would be too expensive for me at this point and I don’t think I can afford to make it free unfortunately . There are no ads to support the free plan usage, so that is an actual ongoing cost for the whole project.\n\nI would appreciate if you could elaborate on that in case I misunderstood you or if you have any other suggestion how you would like this to actually behave.\n\nI am still trying to make a living out of this but it is not a side project anymore nor it is a vibe coded AI slop someone milked out of Claude. It took a lot of money and many years of non stop human work to develop and polish it to current state, so unfortunately I just don’t see how it can be more free at least for now. It is an ongoing service that you are paying for, not an offline utility app.\n\nNone of the premium plans in Paralino are just cosmetic features or something that unlocks “pro” section for the sake of it. All of them come with an associated cost on a day-to-day basis.\n\nSorry for not having a better answer for you though, I get that basically everything I wrote is kinda negative in a way but I am not sure how to explain it better. I hope you at least understand a reasoning for it.",
  "title": "Paralino Location Sharing service"
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