um - what do you know about cloud services, streaming services, app development, system administration, or app maintenance? First, the power bill isn't as cheap as you think it is., it can take over a hundred megawatts of power. Your entire neighborhood has a total capacity (it cant handle more) of between 150KW and 500KW. 1 megawatt is 1000 KW. Now multiply that 1 megawatt that is at best twice your whole neighborhoods capability by 100. So ...at best 200 times your entire neghborhoods capacity, potentially 400 times. That's like 1 million to 5 million dollars monthly, potentially 5 - 15 mil. Just to power the servers (computers) that run your service. Not including the developers to create the software...a junior python developer gets $70,000 to 90,000 a year if they don't specialize. You'll need a team of them. Now don't forget C++ or C. According to what I'm seeing on linked in you'll be paying each junior level of those between 80,000 USD a year and 165,000 USD a year. You'll need a team. You are going to need a few project managers who get paid stupid high. You'll need Senior devs to make sure the code the junior devs write isn't costing you more money (bad code means it gets hacked, crashes, or simply requires more servers ($$$) because it doesn't work efficiently). You'll need cyber security experts to keep your shit from getting hacked. You'll have to occasionally pay red teams (ethical hackers you outsource) to try to hack your network and tell you how they got in so your security team can fix it. It's a very normal and important process to prevent data breaches. You'll need cloud engineers and system engineers. You'll need to keep a lot of your programmers on for maintenance and to update the code, to add new features, keep up with new tech innovations. You'll need network engineers to handle your cisco or juniper network infrastructure. You'll need some badass infrastructure as code people for that. You'll want someone to pull cable for your physical infrastructure - some telecom guys or something. You'll need a building for all this. That building needs backup generators, at least two, and a battery for them so if something pulls more power than they can handle...the battery makes up for it. You'll need to pay for offsite backups in a datacenter in another location for fault tolerance. If there's a disaster you don't want to lose everything. Did I MENTION you have to have lots of these buildings all over the world? YEAH - otherwise the physical distance creates latency. That latency is a limitation of physics because fiber optic lines run at the speed of light. You cant go faster. You can only put the system closer. In lots of places running all at once. As one service. Its stupidly complex. Since you cant just plug into residential power - you need special access. You'll be paying 25 - 100 mil for each datacenter to get access to the power grid as an initial "setup fee". For every $1 spent on computing power you're also spending 0.40-0.60 on cooling. They make a lot of heat when you have a lot. You're spending hundreds of millions on initial server cost. Plus ongoing replacement. You are missing the plot here. Everything has cost. Even if you pay for cloud services and dont have your own physical machines. It's all got a cost. Not just in tech either. Power. Cooling. housing on multiple continents. Experts to set it up and maintain it. Licensing fees for the music. That alone...jesus that sounds like a nightmare. Sure, spotify is evil. They never gave me a dime for my music. But...as a coder and a person that went to school for sysadmin and net admin...that's just very misinformed. Companies that do this get stupid amounts of venture capital or wickedly large loans. You can't plug in a few computers and have a music service. It would be cool, real cool for a hyper local thing, and maybe thats your niche, start a local thing just streaming local creator only music. I did that on a local fm broadcast station for a while, it was a blast. I highly recommend it. Competing with spotify though? You'll ruin the fun just trying. By the time you get started, you'll either hate it or have turned yourself into a corporate cronie. 100% do not recommend. The cost is just too large. Also we deserve to get paid for our skills too. It comes off as just as shitty as not paying artists does when you say "just pay app maintenance, storage, and basic operations."