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My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
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Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#62> GitHub Be careful with using their CI tho, even if it's good, you hit the limit quite fast (especially storage, not minutes; and they don't report properly where the storage expenditure comes, so it's very frustrating).
What kind of storage limit is there? What are you storing?
Usually it’s caching build artifacts between runs, or uploading packages or container images for private deployment.
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#63Love this! I published a similar one last month: https://buttondown.email/stack --- A couple notes on where I differ/concur from OP: 1. ahrefs is absolutely worth its price in gold. 2. IMHO intercom is overpriced relative to competitors depending on how you use it, with the caveat that I hate in-app messaging widgets and consider them a blight on the modern web. (HelpScout is my preferred app.) 3. I deeply miss my Fr…
Thanks for sharing. What does the following refer to in the GitHub Actions explainer:
> …it's free thanks to a generous friends and family plan
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#64>Google Analytics >No surprises here. I used to use Plausible, but that costs money and you can't beat free. Monthly cost: $0. Thanks hard pass. I checked and Plausible starts from 9 Euros a month. This is hardly what I'd consider advertising material. But likely I'm just not their target audience. There's also no consent banner, so this doesn't seem GDPR compliant Edit: I must have phrased this in a confusing way. T…
> I'm well aware cookie-less analytics does not require consent
Tangent, but cookie-less analytics may also require consent. It's about PII, and cookies are just one mechanism to tie information to a person.
For example: browser fingerprinting doesn't use cookies, but serves the same purpose.
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#65Love this! I published a similar one last month: https://buttondown.email/stack --- A couple notes on where I differ/concur from OP: 1. ahrefs is absolutely worth its price in gold. 2. IMHO intercom is overpriced relative to competitors depending on how you use it, with the caveat that I hate in-app messaging widgets and consider them a blight on the modern web. (HelpScout is my preferred app.) 3. I deeply miss my Fr…
Thanks for sharing. What does the following refer to in the GitHub Actions explainer: > …it's free thanks to a generous friends and family plan
A friend of mine who was at one point a GH employee gave me a (lifetime? it was around four years ago) F&F discount that IIRC amounts to $200/mo free across all SKUs.
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#66> I use AWS EC2 for Waitlist's backend python webserver, RDS for the postgres database, S3 for file storage, and an Elastic IP. I use T2 and T3 instances. My AWS bill would be $200-300 a month Seems like a high bill for what sounds like basically a hosted email list? I would have expected compute and storage costs to be very low. E: This was NOT a point about how cloud costs are ridiculous. Even for cloud this seems…
Welcome to the cloud dystopia.
I'm so thankful my career as a developer and sysadmin preceded the cloud era. We now have a whole generation who manage cloud infrastructure but have never setup a Linux server from scratch.
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#67> GitHub Be careful with using their CI tho, even if it's good, you hit the limit quite fast (especially storage, not minutes; and they don't report properly where the storage expenditure comes, so it's very frustrating).
You can quite easily plug in your own CI runner on Github and reduce the cost by 20 times or more, especially if you're already running k8s. (I wrote a post about it for the cheap managed k8s service I built https://symbiosis.host/blog/using-actions-runners)
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#68Why shell out for 1password with its history of security problems when bitwarden is free?
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#69I would say over paying.
You could self-host most of them
Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)
#7040 dollars for hosting your frontend is bit much you might want to check other alternatives like https://www.stormkit.io they allow you to deploy other cdns as well. Or use something like github pages.