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sharing the % breakdown of the cost to build on top of Farcaster:

1. fast database (30%)
2. an indexer for hub (20%)
3. AI (15%)
4. recommendations (5%)
5. data inference, API, etc. (~10%)

majority of early cost will be running a performant database ecosystem.

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also this is before serving content which scares me lol

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lol it’s 1.5 terabytes. doubles every two months!

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indexer is Farcaster shuttle, processes about a few hundred thousands transactions a day.

the recommendation and API components have no load so not much % cost going to them.

GCP, Postgres, PubSub, NestJS, serverless wherever possible

It looks like a bad architecture to me. Is the Indexer something like elastic? What is the number of transactions processed? 
It could be actually the other way around  (very solid reco engine and API layer) but I haven't seen anything like that. Are there any details, like techstack, db size, transaction counts and so on?

Thank you for the excellent stats! How did you measure? Just for curious.

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@unofficial and your concerns look to me very familiar 😁 /poll working on the same problem?