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People ask what it costs to run a few small products alone. The honest answer is less than a coffee habit, provided you refuse the obvious upsells.
The fixed costs
- Three domains, renewed annually.
- One small VPS for anything that needs to stay awake.
- Email, self-hosted, one mailbox.
- Object storage for downloads.
Everything else — hosting for static sites, analytics, CI — sits inside free tiers that are generous enough for sites this size.
The variable costs
Model calls, and only when a feature earns them. The rule I use: if a feature cannot pay for its own tokens within a month, it does not ship with a model behind it.
What I would cut
Paid SEO tooling. The free data sources plus a script did the same job, slower, and taught me more about what the numbers mean.