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I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

jofzar wrote: post #92

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.

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.

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Post by jodrellblank »

taffydavid wrote: post #165
taffydavid wrote: post #149

> I bought a GitHub Copilot subscription in 2023, plugged it into standard VS Code, and never left. I tried Cursor and the other fancy forks when they briefly surpassed it with agentic coding, but Copilot Chat always catches up. > 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 spe…

Thanks for the downvote kind stranger. Not sure what I said to qualify

You copypasted three paragraphs from the article and you contributed "wow".

Re: I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

blitzar wrote: post #58
danhau wrote: post #15

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Why is it nonsense? Sounds reasonable to me.

> its ceiling (both typical and absolute) is far lower If you plan to remaining smaller than instagram, the ceiling is comfortably above you.

This is a post about keeping your infrastructure simple, so Instagram is not a good ceiling to pick. People do all kinds of hacks to scale Python before they hit Instagram levels

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Post by jebarker »

lamasery wrote: post #294
fcatalan wrote: post #232

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100% true. I ran a top 10 most visited Spanish language site on a Pentium III server. I have the technical chops to do all the articles says. But 10k MRR sounds to me like travelling to Mars. I have 0 ideas and 0 initiative to push them ahead.

Yeah, 25 years in the industry, zero business ideas right here. I can build whatever, I just have zero clue whatsoever what to build. Never have.

What has your career looked like? I'm interested because I've spent 20 years in applied research and I've only more recently realized the continual stress that I've felt for 20 years from trying (and mostly failing) to innovate in the "what to build" space.

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Post by r0fl »

bdelmas wrote: post #84
jampekka wrote: post #70

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$15 is not exactly zero, is it? If you don't need more than 1GB, why pay anything for more than 1GB? I recall running LAMP stacks on something like 128MB about 20 years ago and not really having problems with memory. Most current website backends are not really much more complicated than they were back then if you don't haul in bloat.

It is. With 10k MRR it represents 0.15% of the revenue. Having the whole backend costing that much for a company selling web apps is like it’s costing zero.

Overspending for the sake of overspending is not smart in life or business.

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Post by r0fl »

compounding_it wrote: post #175
elAhmo wrote: post #146

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Saving 15 USD on 10k+ USD MMR is ridiculous.

Given how much revenue depends on the experience of a web app and loading times, I’d be happy to pay 100$ a month on that revenue if I don’t have to sacrifice a second of additional loading time no matter how clever I was optimizing it.

Not all businesses depend on milliseconds being shaved off the loading times

For example: Ticketmaster makes a ton of money and their site is complete dogshit.

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Post by klooney »

locknitpicker wrote: post #303
andersmurphy wrote: post #187

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> SQLite on the same machine is akin to calling fwrite. Actually 35% faster than fwrite [1]. > This is also a system constraint as it forces a one-database-per-instance design You can scale incredibly far on a single node and have much better up time than github or anthropic. At this rate maybe even AWS/cloudflare. > you need to serve traffic beyond your local region Postgres still has a single node that can write. S…

> You can scale incredibly far on a single node Nonsense. You can't outrun physics. The latency across the Atlantic is already ~100ms, and from the US to Asia Pacific can be ~300ms. If you are interested in performance and you need to shave off ~200ms in latency, you deploy an instance closer to your users. It makes absolutely no sense to frame the rationale around performance if your systems architecture imposes a m…

You need regional state, or you're still back hauling to the db with all the lag.

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Post by ufocia »

locknitpicker wrote: post #297
sgarland wrote: post #222

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If I give you a box with 1 GiB of RAM, you are literally forced to either optimize your code to run in it, or accept the slowdown from paging. How is this specious?

> If I give you a box with 1 GiB of RAM, you are literally forced to either optimize your code to run in it, or accept the slowdown from paging. How is this specious? It is specious reasoning. Self-imposing arbitrary constraints don't make you write good, performant code. At most it makes your apps run slower because they will needlessly hit your self-impose arbitrary constraints. If you put any value on performant c…

The gym analogy fails. Isolation exercises are almost exactly what you described. They target individual muscles to maximize hypertrophy, i.e. "improve the outcome of your workout."
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