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Just in case, if there are others like me who where wondering what does "MRR" means, it seems to be "monthly recurring revenue".
I'm just curious but is it the case that you signed up here 16 years ago and you didn't know what MRR means?
A lot of this advice is good or at least interesting. A lot of it is questionable. Python is completely fine for the backend. And using SQLite for your prod database is a bad idea, just use Postgres or similar.
The go equivalent of just coping one file across to a server a restarting its process has a lot of appeal and clearly works well for him.
You already have and had everything you need to scale the business to max and it hasn’t happened so more money won’t help. What do you want VC to do? You didn’t bring a plan.
In my case, I've used a similar strategy of keeping costs under €100/month. (But have sold, or stopped my ventures before hitting such MRRs as OP reports).
I raised some capital to pay my own bills during development. But mostly to hire freelancers to work on parts that I'm bad at, or didn't have time for: advertising, a specific feature, a library, rewrite-in-rust (wink) or deep research into functional improvements.
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I'm just curious but is it the case that you signed up here 16 years ago and you didn't know what MRR means?
Not everybody who reads HN is well versed in business/entrepreneur oriented jagon.
Scaling to zero with database persistence using litestream has cut my bill down to $0.1 per month for my backend+database.
Granted I still don't have that many users, and they get 200ms of extra latency if the backend needs to wake up. But it's nice to never have to worry about accidental costs!
Hetzner / Contabo maybe. Cloudflare workers definitely.
This guy is not at my level and multiple $10k MRR is possible but unlikely.