I stopped doing consulting and lived off my savings whilst building my first SaaS app. It took a few months to get ramen profitable and I had zero income the w

I stopped doing consulting and lived off my savings whilst building my first SaaS app. It took a few months to get ramen profitable and I had zero income the whole time during development. Looking back, that was actually kinda stupid of me... But we're not talking about time or opportunity cost, we're talking about hard expenditure right? In that case, probably about $3000. Got spent on a bunch of things - hosting, buying software licenses, SSL certs, icon sets etc etc. My biggest expenditure was on hosting. I went with a dedicated Rackspace server and I signed up way too early. 2 months into my contract I still hadn't launched and was, of course, paying a flat fee per month (not cheap!). This is precisely the situation I could avoid by using cloud solutions, but at the time there wasn't a cloud service out there I was comfortable with using. Tried out Rackspace Cloud Servers recently and would like to use that for future projects. You live and learn.