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Like if you are a student or planning to switch career, then take what's free.. build and learn and ship!!!
Yes, costs can add up. But it’s also about investment / return. Saving $X if it’s less effective a/o costs you $Y, then it might not be the savings it appears to be.
It’s similar to DOGE. DOGE is about Efficiency. But it should have started with Effectiveness. Doing something (financially) efficient doesn’t mean it’s effective.
In short, list some alternatives a/o what you’re giving up by going free would be helpful. For example, Appwrite or Firebase as different (and free tier) backends. Each has their + and -.
Thank again. I will be checking these out.
I the technical debt that I was incurring per project. It is still my go-to option for prototyping and quick tests but this was just the regular stack I am using to ship stuffs.
Also, yes, there a a lot of alternatives (great ones) that I missed and understand that the list is not complete.
Would love to know what stacks you use so I can also try them out.
Is your product making any money?
If so can it scale past the free trial period (Over 10K users a month) and still sustain costs?
Free trials are not forever and limits can change without notice. Maintenance still costs time and money.
So it is not actually $0.
Plus, having a dedicated stack that is you can functionally depend on, will help you scale much easily and accumulate very less technical debt overhead.
If you build an app mindlessly with Replit, chances there, you have a mock or hardcoded DB or auth and when you ship the v2, all data will vanish..
So, it's less of a good thing and more of a bad thing for people starting out.
But yes, you are truly right that this is also very inconsistent to rely on credits. I appreciate you raising this up!