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Re: Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

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Post by quickthrower2 » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

For marketing emails, Mailerlite has a generous and featureful free tier.

Zoho mail is damn good on the free tier.

Google forms / surveys.

GitHub of course!

Netlify is also a free CD / CI perhaps? You can run a script in a container on every deploy.

For seo, semrush has a good free tier for keyword research. There are other nice free tools like screamingfrog and keyword shitter.

Azure has some free forever tiers for functions and web apps but they are very basic.

Re: Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

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Post by InterestBazinga » Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 4:57 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #29

That's not a startup. That's a hobby. It's not a business until you register with various levels of government and pay all of their fees, which instantly makes the $6 figure false.

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. From layman perspective, registering a small company with the govt, they do charge fees right?

Re: Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

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Post by thiago_fm » Thu, Feb 20, 2020, 11:26 AM UTC

I'd just use heroku and pay a bit more(or nothing if no users?), use plugins for what you've mentioned etc.

The cost of running is marginal and if I'm lucky enough to get a lot of users, I can easily switch to anything.

There is a lot of dev cost to wire up everything you've mentioned. Serverless is very devtime-wise consuming, it's state of art tooling is still slow as fuck if you compare writing an app using Rails/Django/etc.

IMHO dev time is what hurts more running a startup, this is what I would try to reduce

Re: Tell HN: How to run a startup for $6 a year

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Post by jacke127 » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 7:01 PM UTC

You will spend more while supporting such a stack. If you have enough experience just start with a production-ready stack, otherwise, youse cheap labor force (PHP, Python) to build initial prototype.