> but that's not really reducing the costs that the web3 app would have otherwise paid to have a local database I'm not sure what you mean? It literally makes

> but that's not really reducing the costs that the web3 app would have otherwise paid to have a local database I'm not sure what you mean? It literally makes the cost to the developer 0 per user. And the original developer can absolutely earn money this way. In fact, in web3 it's possible for frontend devs to earn money by creating better frontends to existing protocols utilizing referral fees that can be specified in calls to the protocol!