They says sponsored by Vercel and Upstash, but in the repo, it just says hosting and database "sponsored" by them. Are they just using the free tier???
Both offer a free plan but Package Phobia is sponsored meaning its on the paid plan but getting it for free.
Kinda like a skateboarder might be sponsored and get a skateboard for free even though others pay for the same item.
Package Phobia started out on the free plan but it turns out its quite popular, serving over 5 million requests per month. A cache miss (which is frequent given the cardinality of packages + versions), it can take 30 seconds to install a package and measure its size.
There's also a public API which tools like Socket use to check the size of every npm package.
styfle|11 months ago
Kinda like a skateboarder might be sponsored and get a skateboard for free even though others pay for the same item.
Package Phobia started out on the free plan but it turns out its quite popular, serving over 5 million requests per month. A cache miss (which is frequent given the cardinality of packages + versions), it can take 30 seconds to install a package and measure its size.
There's also a public API which tools like Socket use to check the size of every npm package.
https://x.com/styfle/status/1826296197566644497
radicalriddler|11 months ago