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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 59nadir »

jon-wood wrote: post #239
yoaso wrote: post #208

I'm taking the opposite approach - managed services all the way, and my monthly infrastructure costs are higher than what's described here. No regrets. Infrastructure isn't the problem I'm trying to solve. The problem is: who's actually going to pay for this? Optimizing infrastructure before you have customers is like designing a kitchen before you've written the menu. I launched within 72 hours of starting developme…

Some of this will depend on what experience you’ve got. Someone with lots of experience running Linux servers can probably stand up the sort of thing described in this article in a couple of hours from a starting point of being given the Go application source and a credit card.

Hang on, isn't this more a question of minutes if you know exactly what you're setting up and can throw some Ansible at it? What am I missing?

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Post by ____tom____ »

dwedge wrote: post #295
gobdovan wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, <1h was a weak root password. All attacks I've seen directly were always user error. The point is effectively removing attack surfaces rather than enhancing security in needlessly exposed internet-facing protocols.

It must have been comically weak, like "root", "password" or something like that

You'll get thousand of attacks a day (and it's been years since I have done this, so probably worse). They try the list of 1000 or so most common passwords across the whole internet. It works often enough to be cost effective.

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Post by coolThingsFirst »

leaves83829 wrote: post #389

I quite like the websequencediagram. looks like a cool product! He's mainly talking about the tech implementation which is the easy part. the hard part of creating a business is finding a problem valuable enough to solve and reaching the users who need that problem solved. that's where the real value is.

Yeah also pretty sure this product has tons of competitors like exaclidraw.

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Post by dh1011 »

> If you have a graphics card sitting somewhere in your house, you already have unlimited AI credits.

I tried running a local LLM, and it’s actually cheaper to use AI credits when you factor in electricity costs. Only use a local LLM if data privacy is your priority.

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

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Post by dwedge »

____tom____ wrote: post #463
dwedge wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It must have been comically weak, like "root", "password" or something like that

You'll get thousand of attacks a day (and it's been years since I have done this, so probably worse). They try the list of 1000 or so most common passwords across the whole internet. It works often enough to be cost effective.

Yeah exactly. If your password can be bruteforced in 1000 or so attempts you have bigger problems than not having fail2ban on ssh. The parent comment was suggesting someone was hacked in an hour for leaving ssh on default settings, and it's obviously not true.

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Post by dehrmann »

elwebmaster wrote: post #419

Can OP write another article focusing on the revenue side, how to actually bring in $10K MRR, forget about the tech stack, AI can solve that.

A job in tech will get you $10k MRR.

At least from this blog post, I wouldn't take his advice on MRR. He's optimizing in the wrong places; he'd be better off spending $100 per month on hosting and focusing on MRR than focusing on bringing hosting costs down to 0.2% of revenue. There's a middle ground without K8S where you use your cloud's autoscaling app hosting and a small, replicated DB. He strawmaned the enterprise approach, and he's trading off a lot of toil for uptime.

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Post by leptons »

eikenberry wrote: post #431
leptons wrote: post #417

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A feature you don't think you need today, might be one you actually need tomorrow. It would be short-sighted to choose some tech based only on what you need today. If the extra features don't cost you anything, I can't see that as a "net negative".

It is better to keep it simple and rework as needed than to try to anticipate everything ahead of time.

I'm not anticipating everything ahead of time, I'm choosing mature tech that does what I need and then some. There's no misstep there. The real problem I've seen with choosing software tech is "new, shiny".

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Post by bedroom_jabroni »

lamasery wrote: post #425
jebarker wrote: post #326

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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.

Working for a salary on other people's ideas, LOL. Mostly incredibly boring ones. One interesting ones that fizzled due to too-low investment and too-safe management (odds are it would have fizzled anyway, of course, though I do think if that one had had the eyes of the right investors it probably could have done a "successful exit"—this was like 15 years ago though) Same as 95+% of people.

Let me just join in into the most relatable thread I've seen.

The real business ideas were the friends we made along the way.

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Post by filleduchaos »

sgarland wrote: post #453
filleduchaos wrote: post #387

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Why not a box with 128MB of RAM then?

Aside from the perfect solution fallacy, pragmatically it's because most operating systems require more than that to run. Debian's current recommended minimum is 512 MB, though they note that with swap enabled, as little as 350 MB is possible. If you wanted to run something more esoteric like Damn Small Linux, it's possible with as little as 64 MB last I checked. In any case, this is for the OS itself - the webserver…

Oh I'm well aware of the existence of operating systems that run in 32MB of RAM or less. So - why not? I think a well-optimised application server (especially one that uses SQLite as a datastore like the article proposes) can fit just fine in 128MB of RAM total, or 256MB if we're being generous. A whole gigabyte of memory seems rather extravagant, no? You could run half a dozen properly optimised apps on such a box.
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