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0 pointsCharlesW2y ago0 comments

> …the cloud is total overkill for small startups and hobby projects.

It absolutely can be, sure. But solutions like Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, etc. can be excellent and inexpensive for those use cases.

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meinheld1112y ago

And surely a vivid tech stack does more to make you look good in front of vc‘s than an overkill architecture does make you look incompetent

djbusby2y ago

IME the investor cares more about Traction that Technology.

mejutoco2y ago

IDK, I remember seeing a tweet from Paul Graham saying that any new startup should use Typescript (I guess instead of js) so there might be some rules of thumb that some investors follow.

ljm2y ago

I consider them separate from the cloud on the basis they’re offering a platform as a service that just happens to re-sell cloud resources.

If you tried to replicate them on the same cloud provider, end to end, it would cost far more than they charge.

mvdtnz2y ago

Vercel is a lot of things but I don't think I've ever seen it referred to as "inexpensive".

CharlesWOP2y ago

So far, for my hobby projects it's basically free.

mikeravkine2y ago

This is exactly how the serverless guys "get you": Low traffic is nearly free but you pay for it on the slope of the scale cost ramp.

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