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Interesting question. I think you could probably get those features by deploying Piku or Dokku for like $4/mo on a VPS, and the equivalent managed Postgres on R
by irskep 4y ago
Interesting question. I think you could probably get those features by deploying Piku or Dokku for like $4/mo on a VPS, and the equivalent managed Postgres on Render would be like $20/mo (16GB SSD), so something like $6-10 seems like the right range to me. Maybe not a booming business, but a nice margin percentage and worth paying for good UX. And the cheap version doesn't need to be the only version if people want more RAM, etc.
I'd find such a product really appealing, especially with a dedicated backup strategy that uses the SQLite backup API to do hourly snapshots or uses Litestream to S3 by default.
- azurelake 4y agoLet's say the price was 12. If this idea is compelling enough for you at that price point to venmo me an advance for your first month, I have some ideas to explore that could actually make this viable. FWIW, I've worked professionally on a PaaS and a managed database offering.
- canadiantim 4y agoIf you make it so I can have one SQLite database per user, I’d be a customer too
- azurelake 4y agoWhen you say per user, you mean per user of your app?
- canadiantim 4y agoyeah exactly. I want each user's data to be silo'd in their own sqlite database each. It's basically just a multi-tenant setup using sqlite.
- azurelake 4y agoCool, thanks for the clarification!