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> The previous day I was experimenting with Google Cloud Run, trying to migrate our Next.js staging environment from Vercel to there to save some money. I assum

• hinkley 2y ago
  Are you one of those devs that mistakenly assumes that you salary constitutes 90% of your cost to the company, when in fact it’s closer to 40%? You want me to spend an hour trying to save the company $100? We just spent $250. And that’s not the half of it. If the company is expecting me to result in $5 in revenue for every dollar they spend on me, we really just lost out on more than $1000. I’ve worked many places where we didn’t think about opportunity costs. I’ve also been laid off many times.
  • busymom0 2y ago
    The author in another comment posted this which very clearly indicated they are bootstrapping a low cash side project from their own wallet: > If this were a business and someone else's money I'd do the same. This is a bootstrapped side project coming out of my own wallet. If money wasn't an issue, I'd probably just allow people to download images for free.
    • dyogenez 2y ago
      We usually spend about $60/month at Google anyways, so $100 wasn’t a crazy jump. That could be one left on Cloud Run instance. When it jumped to $300 total after disabling it that’s when I got worried.
    • hinkley 2y ago
      But you’re not the author, and still went with incredulity as your response. My question still stands.