> 20 dollars a month is an insane amount to pay if you run several projects that might or might not be profitable I used to have this mentality as well. Do eve

> 20 dollars a month is an insane amount to pay if you run several projects that might or might not be profitable I used to have this mentality as well. Do everything for free, use open source, self-host everything--the classic frugal hacker mindset. Then I realized that I was spending 80+ hours tinkering around with static sites and different headless CMS option and had done absolutely none of the actual work required to bring people to my sites (which is the more important work). When I take small freelance gigs I charge roughly $100/hr. That means I spent $8,000 of my own time on tinkering around with what was essentially bullshit. Forcing myself to pay for SaaS tools has been amazing at focusing my attention. It's a perfect signal for what I should be working on. If I don't feel confident investing $20/month in a site for my project, why the hell is anybody going to feel confident paying that or more for what I'm creating? It's forced me to kill what's not worth my time, and focus on what actually has the real potential.