You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: LeoThread 2026-03-22 21-26View the full contextglobalbit (46)in LeoFinance • 2 months ago Launching a startup today is ridiculously cheap:
cheap to start expensive to maintain over time
true, scaling up hits you with those ongoing costs like servers and team - but hey, better than the old days when starting cost a fortune
Yea, but it makes one not waste his time the low cost is why we are having so many failed projects
yeah fair point - low barrier means a ton of half-baked ideas flop quick, but it also lets real gems pop up from unexpected places
No real project is cheap we built a project on Stella blockchain choppaddi.com and the funding has been blowing up our mind over $50k spent and we are still building
damn that's a hefty investment already - stella's got potential but yeah, real projects eat cash fast. respect for pushing through
Namecheap → domain (~$12/year)
Sentry → error monitoring (free)
Upstash → Redis (free)
Pinecone → vector database (free)
Stripe → payments (2.9% per transaction)
GitHub → version control (free)
Claude → coding (~$20/month)
Supabase → backend (free tier)
Vercel → deployment (free)
Resend → email infra (free)
Clerk → authentication (free)
Cloudflare → DNS (free)
PostHog → analytics (free)
All in, a startup can realistically run for about $20/month
The crazy part? It’s never been this cheap to build something from scratch