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i mean yeah if you have 500k users with 56 million function invocations per day, it is expensive on a service like vercel. if you want to scale you should choos
by whimsicalism 2y ago
i mean yeah if you have 500k users with 56 million function invocations per day, it is expensive on a service like vercel. if you want to scale you should choose cheap services
- mococa 2y agoAny USD ~400/month box should handle that traffic.
- whimsicalism 2y agothen build with that rather than vercel/next? we have no idea what the API calls were
- houseplant 2y agoI've seen multiple people say this exact thing, as well
- houseplant 2y agoit blew up to that amount virtually overnight- like maybe a week at the most. I don't even think they had the time to do anything. after using it for a year already, I really need this site to succeed. It's one of the few I'd happily pay money to use, even if I don't get anything back. a while ago, before Bluesky or Cara or anything, a similar issue happened with a site called Hive iirc, it did a great job at fostering a userbase right away and things went great but because they couldn't keep the site up and also develop it, they decided to shutter the entire thing for a month and buckle down.... and it completely lost its entire userbase, its momentum was destroyed, everyone moved on. I don't want to see that happen to Cara.
- nathants 2y agosubscribe! https://buymeacoffee.com/cara.app/membership https://buymeacoffee.com/cara.app/membership
- houseplant 2y agooh don't worry, I already have :) I hope they implement some other situation soon. A one-time fee to register, maybe monthly subscriptions for perks, or something. They may need it sooner rather than later and at least this is a nice stopgap
- nathants 2y agoagreed. lots of good options to monetize without the tired story of vc and ads. indie apps rise!