If you can’t articulate what you need funding for, don’t be surprised if nobody will give it to you?

Not my website. I found this interesting.

well, the guy runs what he runs and can't complain

This seems extremely spartan. Live a little, splurge on the 2GB server and MariaDB instead of SQLite!

Dude you are my spirit animal. Ive been building lean like this forever and thought I was the only nutcase out there...I too have had the same pitch problems as you, when a platform is hella efficient and there is no spending to be had on fixed assets, its not very appealing to investors.

Pieter levels would love this.

Eh-trade.ca eh? The name spells the exit strategy this is seeking. Awesome idea and a great execution. Vertical scaling will take this simple setup far and probably far enough.

You can get all the advantages and almost none of the constraints by buying a bigger base server for $50/m