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Posted by tradertef 23 hours ago

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack(stevehanov.ca)
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sourcecodeplz 17 hours ago|
I do it even more simpler: build in PHP and webhosting from Hetzner. All managed: email, sub-domains, name-servers, OS updates/patches etc.

I really started to enjoy managed servers/instances.

jofzar 19 hours ago||
I decided to look at their website halfway through the post,

https://imgur.com/a/7M4PdO6

This is really what 10k mrr can get you? A badly designed AI slop website that isn't even mobile correctly compatible. The logo is white background on black website like a university project.

I can't believe that people are willingly spending money on this.

yakshaving_jgt 18 hours ago||
You'd be surprised at the amounts household name companies spend on broken software. I've personally seen multiple companies spend tens of thousands paying just for the opportunity to evaluate the broken software. And I don't mean the time taken for their own employees to spend doing the evaluation. I mean that plus forking over large piles of cash.
Capricorn2481 13 hours ago||
I have worked with healthcare clients paying gobs of money to completely broken sites that they have to call support about twice a week. I don't pretend to know why people spend money on things anymore.
osigurdson 8 hours ago||
Lots of debate about SQLite vs Postgres. One thing to note is you can certainly run Postgres (Kubernetes even if you want) and your app for $20 / month.
cryptonym 8 hours ago|
A $20 k8s sounds like adding the overhead without the benefits.
osigurdson 7 hours ago||
It's about 300MiB and maybe 5% of a core if the cloud provider offers a free managed control plan. If you want / like Kubernetes it isn't a deal breaker.
sadeed08 14 hours ago||
Very good article for a beginner starting newly to keep things lean and simple.
krypttt 18 hours ago||
We have gone full circle haven't we?
Myzel394 19 hours ago||
Does anybody know a good service to self host Ai? My graphics card is shit, I want to rent hardware to run my own models
raincole 20 hours ago||
So what's the $10K MMR product, exactly? The lede is buried into nonexistence. Is it this one: https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ ...?

> Here is the trick that you might have missed: somehow, Microsoft is able to charge per request, not per token. And a "request" is simply what I type into the chat box. Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase, mapping dependencies, and changing hundreds of files, I still pay roughly $0.04.

Really? Lol. If it's true why would you publish it? To ensure Microsoft will patch it up and fuck up your workflow?

faangguyindia 18 hours ago||
It's already known. The trick is ms has very small context size. So it won't be much useful.
raincole 12 hours ago||
So in other words the author is plain lying?

> Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase

How can a 'very small context size' do that?

nesk_ 20 hours ago||
>Really? Lol. If it's true why would you publish it? To ensure Microsoft will patch it up and fuck up your workflow?

It's true and it's their official pricing, so talking about it won't change anything.

People are spending way too much money with Claude Code while they could simply pay for GitHub Copilot and fire up OpenCode to get the same results but way cheaper.

zkmon 12 hours ago||
How do you connect back from VPS to local LLM?
dnnddidiej 21 hours ago|
Is infra where investors money is going? I imagined salaries would be it. Marketing costs maybe.
swiftcoder 20 hours ago|
For single-person companies infra can be the single largest expense (especially if you aren't paying yourself yet!). The day you bring a full-time employee onboard, I have a hard time seeing infra costs ever exceeding salaries for most shops
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