The text feels incoherent to me and lacks some nuance.
It starts about cutting costs by the choice of infrastructure and goes further to less resource hungry tools and cheaper services. But never compares the cost of these things. Do I save actually the upgrade to a bigger server by using Go and sqlite over let's say Python and postgres? Or does it not even matter when you have just n many users.
Then I do not understand why at one point the convenience of using OpenRouter is preferred over managing multiple API keys, when that should be cheaper and a cost point that could increase faster than your infrastructure costs.
There are some more points, but I do not want to write a long comment.
It actually starts with a completely unrelated anecdote:
"What do you even need funding for?"
I agree. The author claims to have multiple $10K MRR websites running on $20 costs. I also don't understand what he needs money for — shouldn't the $x0,000 be able to fund the $20 for the next project? It doesn't make any sense at all.
Then the author trails off and tells us how he runs on $20/month.
The author says he wants funding to grow the businesses. Presumably he wants funding and the help from investors to enable quicker growth than what is possible organically.
Building a $10K MRR website is hard. Building multiple (assuming "multiple" here means >= 3) $10K MRR websites is extremely hard.
I don't know which investors they pitched to, but most investors seeing that number will write a 100-200K check to invest in THE PERSON pretty immediately; unless there was strong red flags in their business model (porn, drug, gambling, etc...)
Just because you start this lean doesn’t mean you should stay that way. Perhaps he’s now spending too much time managing his stack and not enough time on product development, customer service, a/o growth.
In other words, what gets you to $10k MRR isn’t the same thing(s) for 2x, 5x, or 10x that.
Beitrag zur Studierendenschaft (Contribution to the student body)
8,70 €
Beitrag zum Studentenwerk (Contribution to the Student Services)
48,77 €
Beitrag zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the semester ticket)
179,40 €
Beitrag zum Sozialfonds zum Semesterticket (Contribution to the Social Fund for Semesterticket)
3,50 €
= 290,37 €
Of course it is still much cheaper than to study in other countries. But the fees are growing and you have to pay for the semester ticket, which is essentially a ticket for all public transportation in Berlin, even though you wouldn't need it.
It starts about cutting costs by the choice of infrastructure and goes further to less resource hungry tools and cheaper services. But never compares the cost of these things. Do I save actually the upgrade to a bigger server by using Go and sqlite over let's say Python and postgres? Or does it not even matter when you have just n many users. Then I do not understand why at one point the convenience of using OpenRouter is preferred over managing multiple API keys, when that should be cheaper and a cost point that could increase faster than your infrastructure costs.
There are some more points, but I do not want to write a long comment.
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