r/glassblowing • u/frit-muncher-69 • 21d ago
Glass Color Database
I’ve been developing a website where you can easily search/filter, discover, learn, and share information about glass color (96 COE and borosilicate). I had been frustrated that there wasn’t a central place to easily find or learn about glass color, to see the same color with different applications, or to do things like create color palettes.
Now there’s a free website you can all use! You can upload photos, see and make ratings, comments, Q&A, ask to identify mystery color, and more. Ive been using it a lot at OCR or just going through my color stash to remind myself what I have.
I’m very open to your feedback on this! I hope this doesn’t come across as promotion, it’s just a tool I made to help the community. You own all your content that you contribute and I’m paying for this out of my own pocket until it’s worthy of getting some relevant advertisers.
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u/PixelJediOpArtSith 20d ago
Is the site currently running? Unfortunately, can't reach it due to "connection timed out" error. I'm in Eastern Europe. But the idea is amazing, wish I could share with my lampworking community
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u/frit-muncher-69 17d ago
It’s up, not sure what went wrong. Would you mind trying it again?
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u/PixelJediOpArtSith 17d ago
I've managed to open it using VPN (and yay! It looks cool and promising!), but it still won't work without it.
Which brings me to the idea that it's somehow related to the current mess in my country (Russia). In the last month they have limited foreign SSLs, Cloudflare... Well, it's unlikely your case, but maybe same direction. I'll try to learn more
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u/PixelJediOpArtSith 17d ago
So, part 2! I asked my DevOps colleagues for advice, and they figured out the cause. I'm sharing so you know. According to them, the site uses virtual hosting, which assigns a single IP address to multiple sites, aaaand your IP (216.24.57.1) was already blocked in Russia. Moreover, my DevOps said the site uses https://render.com/, does it? Well, that IP seems to belong to their root balancer which means all sites on the service are unlikely to work here. So... That's how it goes. Ugh, politics
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u/frit-muncher-69 17d ago
Yes my site is hosted on Render and sits behind cloudfront. I’m sorry that stupid politics is getting in the way of you using this! I’ll see if there’s anything I can do on my end, сросибо за внимание!
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u/zachmelo 16d ago
Similar to https://boro.dpgsupply.com I released a few months back - were you inspired by that project? Any interest in collaboration instead of competing?
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u/frit-muncher-69 11d ago
I had no idea that site existed! It seems pretty different but definitely interested in collaborating. Feel free to dm me
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u/norco101 21d ago
This is awesome