plata.fyi is now open source

hi people,

Yesterday I set up a project to share salaries in order to be able to value each other better. – https://www.reddit.com/r/mkd/comments/1sbjkv7/колку_вредиме_сподели_ја_платата_анонимно/

First of all, thanks to the 30 or so people who trusted and set their salaries 💜. You are stepping on your feet!

Second, thanks to everyone for the comments and criticisms. The biggest criticism was because if it is anonymous, an email is requested. The note was spot on, although it was impossible to find out who posted what, the emails were not in the database and there was no connection between emails and posts, plus time, all the posts were not with a precise date but only a month – it could not be determined exactly even by logs.

Regardless, I decided to remove the email requirement, and set up a Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha – to protect against bots.

I honestly don’t feel good about this change, because the database is “open” and it’s up to CloudFlare not to spam.

Publicly available data

All data is publicly available in CSV on github. On every code change, a script is run and it makes a backup in CSV and uploads it to github releases. You don’t need to know Github to download them. The link is https://github.com/platafyi/plata.fyi/releases. You should be able to see this without a login.

Purpose

While I understand the skepticism from anyone who was a skeptic, the goal of this project is/was never to gain any insight. First, I do not live in Macedonia, second, I am not an employer. I know what it means to have a paycheck because I use one before every interview levels.fyi as a developer, and I know how much I should ask for. I think that everyone in MK will benefit from such a thing.

So I invite you to build the goal of the project together.

What’s next

Review the project, create github issues/PRs and we developers can talk about features there. Anyone can contribute. Honestly, if there is a response and a desire, I will make anyone a full moderator, and I would hand over the whole project.

Where do you need help?

FirstI’m a backend guy, it would be ok if someone takes a peek at the frontend. I sculpted it with Claude so someone has a look there, there are quite a few things that can be fixed.

Secondmaybe real first, say plus protected except CloudFlare. Currently, I have a rate-limit per IP, but even that is a bit of a hassle.

Third, features/design and everything you can think of.

Follow the link – https://github.com/platafyi/plata.fyi

Good night

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EDIT1 (developer): Regarding emails, I used resend.com for the first 2-3 hours so https://forwardemail.net/. The guys said that they have no retention of emails, they keep mail envelopes so headers for up to 30 days. I checked other SMTP transactional providers, none have an option to delete email after delivery. The only option for email is custom SMTP, but by the time the domain warmup is done, weeks, if not months, will pass and everything will go to spam. If anyone has a solid SMTP domain that they would open-source-nal, we can use that and get the email login back. With full control of SMTP we will be able to have truly 0 email logs