Just launched my new personal site, lmk what y'all think

Just launched my new personal site, lmk what y'all think

https://benadamsky.com

cto @ bwl.gg (lunchbreak.com), 80M+ users (bdut.ch) 🙏 built @remindme, @mintit, @gpt, @healthbot, farcantasy.xyz

co-founder @survey x /ponder // benadamsky.com

And building on the new Next 13 setup was a breeze, sorry @warpcastadmin.eth

you don't have to be sorry!

...until your website becomes popular enough and you see the bill

Honestly if my personal site got popular enough for a big bill I think that means I've made it

as a person with 80m dau of my apps

no, you won't make it

but you will pay top dollar for that

Gotta monetize your site with some ad space lmaoo

you'll be surprised how little companies pay for adspace nowadays

also for data — no one seems to need it

if i didn't follow my scrappy instincts and went with vercel's plan to squeeze money out of devs, i'd pay >$10k/month to support all this traffic

i don't want to pay when i can get something for free

aws is like twice as expensive as digital ocean — and digital ocean isn't the cheapest option (i just like them too much)

and about traffic...

you never build something for too little or too much traffic

you always build somthing that should blow up or never blow up

it's one or the other, never inbetween

Agreed, hosting on vercel makes sense until it doesn’t. I’d be very hesitant building something that receives a lot of traffic on vercel, their tier plan is steeep.

AWS adds up too but there’s always ways to get credits at least.