How to Launch a Product Without Getting Screwed by Infra Costs 🤑
Small digital and SaaS products usualy needed just the basics:
- domain / DNS
- hosting
- database
- payment gateway
- email sending
- analytics
Optional stuff:
- file storage
- ai
How much did the basics cost for my pages.report product?
- Domain: $9
- DNS: $0 (Cloudflare)
- Hosting: $0 (Vercel)
- Database: $0 (Mongo Atlas 512 MB free)
- Payment: $0 (Stripe takes a % from each transaction)
- Emails: $0 (Resend)
- Analytics: $0 (Umami)
This setup is good enough to launch and maybe make your first $1 - $1000.
When the scale grows, 512MB database won't be enough, and same with 3k free emails/month.
Info for the purists:
We're talking here about a product that solves a specific, usually small, problem for the buyer.
Just to show that it's really possible to start for free:
My SaaS made its first dollars, and the database was 1MB in size.
But you know, every developer / devops will tell you - "it depends" on what kind of product you're building.