Hey @beggars,
What a coincidence, you joined exactly the same day as me!
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I completely agree. Budget breakdowns should be a requirement for every DHF-funded project, not just for transparency, but because it actually helps the projects themselves find waste they didn't know they had.
When I took over as TPM at Mantequilla-Soft and started auditing our infrastructure, I discovered several servers that the previous devs "forgot" to mention were no longer in use. Once I cancelled them, we reduced 3Speak's infrastructure costs by over 70%.
Imagine how much the DHF could save if every funded project went through that same exercise.
U gave me an idea to find anyone's same birthday users. Let's say
Eddiespino goes to a frontend and types all users who posted this week and from your joining date xD
Results might be less but could be a fun little script.
Bro yes, build that. That would actually be a lot of fun.
Twinsies, haha. A 70% reduction is considerable, that's crazy. Imagine if you didn't take over and those servers just continued to sit there accruing mass costs multiplied over the year? That's crazy. I suspect every project has the headroom to trim operations without compromising the end result, but hasn't had the need because of previous higher token value on Hive.
Well, they were actually active for around 1.5 years or maybe more, doing nothing. It would have been nice to get a heads-up from the previous devs, but it is what it is.
That being said, we reduced those costs just in time before the price dropped significantly, because at these prices, it would have been even harder to keep paying for all of those servers, and maybe 3Speak would have had to shut down.