My side project's tech stack is NixOS, Nginx, Rust and Xeact. It's a fairly popular blog that gets hundreds of thousands of hits per month (<a href="https://xeiaso.net" rel="nofollow">https://xeiaso.net</a>). It's also got a hand-crafted CDN (XeDN) written in Go using net/http, tsnet and BoltDB running on fly.io.<p>On average it costs me $60 per month to run it in particular (Hetzner/AWS Route53/fly.io), but after ad and patreon income it actually earns me about $240 per month. I've been looking at minimizing the tech stack down some more to make it more cash-positive but moving everything on the Hetzner box to my homelab is logistically annoying. I'll get there some day.
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I wrote a journaling app for myself — <a href="https://windofchange.me" rel="nofollow">https://windofchange.me</a>. I’m currently the heaviest user, but there are others.<p>I’ve been a Haskeller for most of my career, but for this one I’m using Next.js and TypeScript for the backend and frontend.<p>GraphQL API (Pothos + Apollo), Postgres for the DB, DigitalOcean for the hosting.<p>Costs about $30/mo — hosting, managed Postgres, managed Redis. Could probably be $10/mo if I ran everything on the same droplet, but I like DO’s automated deploys and having to manage zero state by myself.
I have two:<p><a href="https://SherlockDNA.com" rel="nofollow">https://SherlockDNA.com</a> runs a lot of reports for genetic genealogists. It's boring a boring Rails-based app with Stimulus and Hotwire. This is plopped on a cheap $20 node from Hetzner. I use Hatchbox.io for deployment and love it. For the two, $30/month.<p><a href="https://ranchoelcharro.com" rel="nofollow">https://ranchoelcharro.com</a> is a horse ranch in Mexico that rescued during COVID. The site itself lives on SquareSpace so non-technical people can edit. Behind the scenes I built out our own booking/reservation platform after being woefully dissatisfied with commercial options. It, too, is another boring Rails-based app with Stimulus and Hotwire (yes, even the widget that handles the booking is boring). Site lives on Heroku because I was too lazy to do anything else at the time, and it's fine there for now. It handles a half-dozen integrations with tour agencies, all back-office stuff, and more. It's about $50/month for everything to make it hum on Heroku which is great because I don't have to worry about it — my employees lives and their families lives depend on them getting reservations, so I want to make sure that it's as me-no-play-sysadmin as possible. SquareSpace, while annoying for a web developer like myself, is fine and runs us $33/month. All together, our tech spend is about $120/month — HelpScout for emails/tickets, emails sent with Postmark.
go for all services + firebase (hosting, storage, auth) + cloud sql (optional, used for my b2b saas I’m working on for example)<p>ui is svelte or react based on whether I’m building a static cms or a full blown app.<p>Mobile is flutter.<p>Cost? Depends. For enabling SSO I need to be on paid plan for firebase. If I need cloud sql cost goes up. Otherwise it’s basically cheap or free depending on project requirements.
My side project is provisioning infrastructure by starting with a fresh, local VM, provisioning it with Ansible, and copying it to disk to allow it to be booted on bare metal for further use.<p>Packer, Terraform, Pulumi, and Docker for infrastructure.<p>Proxmox as the provisioned hypervisor.<p>HashiCorp Vault (machine facing) and Bitwarden (user/me facing) for secrets management.<p>Various Ansible playbooks for local orchestration and host provisioning.<p>Cost is one time hardware + development time. It’s amazing what tools are available for free these days.
Keeping it boring. Rails, Postgres running with Docker on a dedicated server. Postgres is managed by DigitalOcean.<p>Total price is around 30 Dollars / month
sssppa! (Scala, Scala.js, Slinky, Postgres, Play, Anorm)<p>I run many side projects with this stack, and, it is fantastic due to the low maintenance requirements.<p>Besides the domain, it costs between $5-10 USD/service/month, if I wanted to save, I could just run a bigger server hosting all my services