I recently came across a blog post that really resonated with me — it captures a philosophy I’ve believed in since I started building small companies and apps:
How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
The whole piece is worth reading, but the core idea is simple: keeping costs near zero gives you the same runway as raising a million dollars with a massive burn rate … but without the stress, the complexity, or the board breathing down your neck.
The one place I differ is on the database. I’m still firmly in the camp of running a managed Postgres instance, decoupled from the rest of the stack, rather than going all-in on SQLite.