{
  "id": 6995448,
  "title": "DEV: Boniatillo - The Cuban social network that allows you to monetize your content (built in PHP)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/show-dev-boniatillo-la-red-social-cubana-que-permite-monetizar-tu",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-12T20:47:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/frankcollado/show-dev-boniatillo-la-red-social-cubana-que-paga-por-publicar-construida-en-php-56f7"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "Frank, a developer from La Habana, Cuba, has created a social network called Boniatillo to address the challenges of using traditional social media platforms in Cuba. Boniatillo allows users to post text, images, and videos, create polls, and receive tips via Transfermóvil, Cuba's national payment system. The platform is optimized for slow and unstable internet connections, with features such as image compression, video resizing, and lazy loading. Boniatillo has already gained 150+ registered users, with hundreds of posts published and premium subscriptions sold. The platform was built using PHP, MySQL, and Nginx, with no frameworks used to keep the code lightweight and optimized.",
  "summary": "Boniatillo es una red social de microblogging construida en PHP por un desarrollador de La Habana, Cuba. La red social fue creada para abordar varios desafíos que enfrentan los usuarios en Cuba, como conexiones lentas e inestables, datos móviles caros, falta de pasarelas de pago internacionales y apagones frecuentes. Boniatillo permite a los usuarios publicar posts, subir imágenes y videos cortos, crear encuestas, recibir propinas por Transfermóvil y monetizar su perfil con suscripciones a contenido exclusivo. La plataforma está optimizada para conexiones lentas y no cuenta con comisiones, utilizando tecnologías como PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Cloudflare y GD/WebP para el procesamiento de imágenes y videos.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}