Definitely. And just think, Notado started off on k8s without any users at all! As the article hints at, the choice mainly came down to laziness and complacency

Definitely. And just think, Notado started off on k8s without any users at all! As the article hints at, the choice mainly came down to laziness and complacency, at the cost of significant added complexity that would be paid by "future me" ("past me" is not always the most considerate...) I hope that one thing that potential solo devs take away from this post is that you can get very far without even needing to think about touching k8s (especially if you are already very comfortable with k8s). After all, HN and Pinboard comfortably serve many more users than our side projects likely ever will without bringing in any kind of heavyweight container orchestration platforms.