Comment by rvz
5 days ago
> Was it cost effective when compared to hiring a developer? Yes. Was it value for money? NO.
Is your product making any money?
If so can it scale past the free trial period (Over 10K users a month) and still sustain costs?
Free trials are not forever and limits can change without notice. Maintenance still costs time and money.
So it is not actually $0.
I lowkey agree to this. But this is like a starter kit for people who are just mindlessly building and exhausting their credits on apps like Cursor or Replit.
Plus, having a dedicated stack that is you can functionally depend on, will help you scale much easily and accumulate very less technical debt overhead.
If you build an app mindlessly with Replit, chances there, you have a mock or hardcoded DB or auth and when you ship the v2, all data will vanish..
So, it's less of a good thing and more of a bad thing for people starting out.
But yes, you are truly right that this is also very inconsistent to rely on credits. I appreciate you raising this up!