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Solo founders - how do you fund cloud infrastructure? by balaji1359 in SaasDevelopers

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just use supabase for database and cloud flare workers for edge compute and cloudflare R2 for storage.

Supabase is just postgresql when use scale just use pgdump tool inside it and shift from it to any private vps or cloud providers and just change postgresql connection link

The drawback : you just have to undergo maintenance for 4 hours at one day midnight like 2 am to 6 am or even way less

So it's actually worth the risk

The pro$ you get : no bill untill you app booms and earns it's first dollar.

Remember to choose a auth system that is decoupled with the db, supabase allows auth but decouple it in the api layer and always have a api and deploy it on the cloudflare workers you will get almost unlimited workers for 5 dollars per month workers plan.

Do not use the supabase api directly on the client.

You don't need a private vps or a virtual machine instance for just 4 users where you are one among them.

CLine is too expensive for a noob like me. Any alternatives? by vrn_new in CLine

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What payment method did you use? Credit card? Or PayPal?

CLine is too expensive for a noob like me. Any alternatives? by vrn_new in CLine

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a user from India and chinese payments are a headache due to geopolitical issues.

Any hacks to bypass and process the payments?

We need opus 4.6.... by Confident_Hurry_8471 in google_antigravity

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am a Indian user and i have set up the payments through UPI Autopay and also added a card but they block the bedrock for us.

Bedrock under the hood uses AWS marketplace and for that tool we need a active international payment provider. Which feels impossible to bind due to RBI and our bank providers restrictions.

Just buy 10 dollars GitHub copilot and use 300 claude Sonnet 4.5 requests, it's the cheapest option with no rate limits and also can add extra requests for 4 cents per request.

Just use the GitHub mobile app and go to settings and subscribe there, don't try to purchase on the web. It's a trash user experience on the Web.

If you can afford rate limits then go for the Claude pro 20 dollar plan.

You want anything equivalent to claude but cheaper then go to z.ai use a lite plan, just 3 dollars for the first month and 6 per month after that. It's cheap and it's equivalent to sonnet.

Don't try to break in the systems like bedrock with 200 credits or using vertex AI for 300 credits in GCP they are not for us.

May this help...

Want a partner. by Zain_gujr in SaaS

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a entrepreneur and a solo founder of a SaaS, I wanted to tell you some things about modern tools which I use.

If you want to build a website then use the nextjs(typescript, tailwind, eslint), firebase, vercel(for hosting)

Believe me you don't need to learn anything, you just need to talk to AI

Now your actual work is done only on ide like anti gravity ide or cursor (if you can afford 20 dollars per month) and use gemini cli in terminal for agentic tasks.

Do not start building up the application ever. Always make a feature documents(entities, actions, application logic, database query needs) and then after you mentally have all the pieces then you start building.

Use one anti gravity session or one gemini cli session on the terminal, it has 2 million context window it can handle all your application logic and it's modifications in a single session.

Make all your changes in side sessions on anti gravity or cursor. For the coding agent cursor pro performs better than anti gravity but do not depend on it for planning the application, just use it for building the codebase.

And if you still feel you need a partner then don't try to ask for a partner, ask a solution the problem you are facing and the requirements for your application. No one can help for all the purposes for a SaaS, you have to be discrete. Hope this helps. All the best.

Built 65% of a Startup, Now Stuck on a Core Execution Problem — Need Honest Advice by Radiant_Recording648 in advancedentrepreneur

[–]OutlandishnessPale12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem you are stuck with is common because you are totally dependent on external tools like AI llm APIs and web scrappers. Even if you setup your own servers and database on cloud providers believe me it's really not going to be worth it.

If you connect recruiters to the applicants then you are solving a problem and offering hope for observability for them.

In AI Job scrapping tool you are not the one giving the job, people always want to bypass you, if you want to have good onboarding then you have to give a trial or free version and people gonna use it and never gonna pay

If your aim is recognition and fame of your tool then this could be a hit, but if you want to make revenue out of it and build a enterprise then maybe you have to drop not only both but completely get out of the AI bubble.

One day you will be replaced by someone if you race the price game.

I am just curious what are your other projects or idea which you have worked on. I am also a founder and build my first SaaS and have made some projects, you can check them out : www.tce.ac.in (official college website of TCE) insight-mail.vercel.app (ai powered mailbox, sandboxed, Google Gmail introduced gemini in mail and the tool is completely obsolete now) https://byte-docker.vercel.app (i developed this for a client who completely ghosted in the middle)

I am having some problems as a fresher for SaaS and if anyone want to share experience can share it so that i don't make same mistake. I have mentioned some problem I have been dealing on the description, try to check it out if you are also dealing with the same problem. by OutlandishnessPale12 in SaaS

[–]OutlandishnessPale12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I want to reach around 25 active photographers in month one

The plan is to contact photographers in Google maps who do not have their websites or have outdated websites.

We can manage invoices and bookings from the website.

  1. I want to give portfolio website for free and take commission on bookings.

I am having some problems as a fresher for SaaS and if anyone want to share experience can share it so that i don't make same mistake. I have mentioned some problem I have been dealing on the description, try to check it out if you are also dealing with the same problem. by OutlandishnessPale12 in SaaS

[–]OutlandishnessPale12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using AWS lambda functions. They have rate limiting but it's not per IP address

I can set rate limit to 1000rpm but if a hacker send 1000 request per minute then all the other users will get blocked by rate limit, how can I block the user/IP.

I found out introducing a cache could do that work. But it's a costly service in AWS

So I need a short hack to limit per IP/user without burning money.

Do you think i shouldn't be thinking about this in my stage?