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Comment by theturtletalks

7 hours ago

Postiz founder posted on X that his service is being brought down, his keys were already used and Railway was quiet about this until he spoke up:

https://x.com/wickedguro/status/2113015432974405658

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lifeisloving  6 hours ago

Why is a 300k mrr company (his tiwtter bio) running on raleway?

  • jeremyjh  5 hours ago

    You may think that sounds like a very nice salary but $4MM annual gross is a very small business. I can’t imagine how Railway would be in business if that were considered a large customer.

    • lifeisloving  5 hours ago

      Sure, I guess there are a ton of dumb people. But please name a few sites that aren't slop ecom fly by nights... I cant think of any serious business that runs on raleway.

      I dont understand using any PaaS that essentially functions by arbitraging aws to people that are scared of an aws dashboard at a 3x markup.

      Seems like a decent platform for toy projects not for enterprise.

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  • to11mtm  4 hours ago

    300K ARR means you get 300K in annual recurring revenue.

    Subtract costs for employees. Which, given current economy and inflation, that gets you a founder scraping on their savings, one or two other people (remember that if you're paying someone unless it's totally offshored through a house which has it's own inflation, you have other factors) and then your own taxes... yeah... much more than that and you are in the black.

    As a general factor I keep in mind, when I worked at a 'normal' but toxic place before I was an actual software engineer, my manager's rules were something like '40 percent L2R' (might have been lower) for in-house employees and 70- 80% L2R for contractors.

    IOW, for every dollar billed for an actual employee, we paid the employee 40 cents. For every dollar billed for a contractor, we paid them 70-80 cents.

    I've heard similar figures from others (e.x. 'in house employee has a real cost of 1.5-2x their actual pay').

    And yes it sucks and yes the structure at least here in the US is a factor.