How much it costs me to run my SaaS's in 2024 

I watched the material UI playlist way back when. It's great to see someone who isn't optimizing for being a youtube tutorial guru. Nothing better than learning from someone who is actually applying it to solve real world issues. Very cool!

User paying a SaaS paying a PaaS

Thank you for your transparency. Even though it's my first time seeing your channel and website, I've learnt a lot from this video =)

Love the content homie. Good blend of tech and business, which isn’t something you find a lot of. Keep em coming man!

Positive guy in tech & biz. Relevant content too. Keep such videos coming 😀

that part on vercel hits hard damn

how are you scraping instagram tho? can you make an in depth video on how you run continuous scraping and how you host it?

Thank you for this one, been thinking about these exactly same questions what you presented in video. Espectially cloudflare + vercel anti ddos etc.

Hey man! I love your startup content. Thanks!

You’re content is so valuable!

An enlightening and fresh perspective. Thanks!

this content is pure gold. Great work Anthony 👏

You mentioned you have about 4 year's worth of data on all matches on your first SaaS, can you disclose how much TB that is approximately in your AWS db? I'm currently on AWS S3 for the storage of sound recordings, im curious how that would scale approximately

Great video. Thanks very much.

nice video man, enjoying this content

Great video and transparancy! Thanks for sharing this!!

Do you still feel the same about Cloud Flare in light of new events?

Very helpful video bro, thanks so much

Stay away from AWS. …we’re using Vercel, an AWS wrapper. 😄

Hi, what do you think Azure to host app and and databases so that the database connection isn't exposed to public internet?

Great content ❤ new subscriber

very informative video, thanks!

hey! what do you recommend to replace AWS?

Great video❤

That's a lot of vendors to depend on. I run 3 sites and my total is less than $30. Can be really rough to depend on metered services. Billing spikes are rough, especially when you are pre-revenue. Thanks for sharing the Vercel experience.

Thanks for sharing your startups' finances like this! I noticed there are only tech stack costs on here; I find that a lot of my costs end up going towards marketing (although maybe that is just a signal that I am doing something wrong). Would you consider making a video on this subject?

what do you use with upstash that you managed to replace?

This is a great video. I just found your channel, but this gold. I don't know if I missed it, but would you tell how many customers you serve with that costs or how many visits your apps get a month, mostly to estimate the cost per user (paid or not) or cost per number of hits a month?

Great videos!!!

Nice to see someone who actually does this for real

Subscribed!

Awesome video man.

Super interesting thank you

Liked becuase of Jared. Subscribed becuase of such great advice.

What happened to that Magik influencer startup? I tried to go on the website and it's just an error. Why did you give up on it?

I run a 160k daily visitors LMS (it has a lot of free stuff), about 5k registered users for just 46 bucks with a vultr vps + 10 ddos protection. I only need to worry with bandwidth usage, because I have a 5tb cap and after that I have to pay 0.01 per GB, which I've only been close to the limit once (97% at it's peak). Developer cost and producing content are by far the most expensive costs.

ha, i remember lots of billing issues with vercel

Hmmm idk about the general "Stay clear of AWS". Yes it is very quick and easy to accidentally spend tons of money, but with the right things you can manage to not spend much. Vercel is also just reselling AWS stuff so thats where you pay a bunch of premium too. Serverless scaling is a pain once you reach the point where instances of containers would be cheaper than serverless calls. I wouldnt recommend any completely new engineer to do anything on AWS. I remember the first times i had to do stuff and i was close to causing problems every time. Now after 3-4 years im pretty comfortable with using aws. It requires training and attention when you do stuff and plan architectures.

I assume you initial app was working like AWS based using it's features, but did you try to compare those costs with other cloud hosting, like GCP, Azure (for example)? I know you say, when the AWS costs were getting high, you moved to parts of this features to separate services (heroku, betterstack,...) but did you evaluate the possibility to move to a different hosting as a bundle?

Great video, thanks for answering my question in previous video about making this kind of topic! Do you have a video about cloudflare? How to install it correctly, what is does and so on? I have heard a lot about cloudflare, but never understood it correctly. Thanks!

Guys I am confused. I simply need a landing page, a page where the user can use my program after log in and my program connected with my program which runs in the cloud. Do you have any suggestions which offers all this on one platform?

Vercel is great if youre publishing projects with virtually no users but once you get over even like 100 concurrent active users its very easy to ecceed their limits. AWS imo just targets growing companies with tons of capital. I'd recommend just renting vps/vdses, they have their own risks of course like reliability, etc. but the prices are way more affordable. Plus learning devops to me is fun + a free skill for your resume.

Vercel should add alerts and implement protections around there limits. It seems unfair that you can get stinged so easily

what are good alternatives for aws? you mentioned to stay away from it... so what should we use instead? also, any examples why specifically it was hard to work with? just asking because i'm trying to start something of my own :)

Nice video!

could you also please share the employee cost with a breakdown for the number of employees you have working for each startup, like x engineers, y designers and z growth marketers, etc

when you say AWS isnt cheap and others are better? which others could you at leaast mention a few? thanks

Yeah I am not touching vercel. I am scared of it. What is going on with aws? Have you tried SST to deploy on AWS? My next stack will be pretty simple NextJS, payload CMS, serverless functions for cron jobs and event bus all the way( they run for almost free) and SST will hold all of that together.

Great video man! Btw how are you getting your Instagram data via API or scraping?

Vercel and Cloudflare not looking good today.

What would you recommend for a SAAS developed in a Django framework? AWS or Heroku? Have heard from others also regarding AWS's hidden costs. 😷

Is heroku really cheaper than AWS?

Can I ask a question? Do you code the webapp all by yourself or use a no-code platform like webflow?

Best Info I've Run Into So Far! I've been mulling over 2 startup concepts and been brickWalled with all the puzzle pieces and cost$! Sub'd & 👍Liked! Can you do a vid on OpenSaaS? Love your Content! Keep it Going!

Why move away from betterstack if you're so happy with them?

"DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND" looks like Vercel is playing you again

Just ran into the billing issues with vercel, $700 bill, never been more than $100. Took them 2 weeks to respond

Vercel discourages using Cloudflare while also hosting on Vercel - what's your opinion on that?

Hey, how much does this startup make per year?

Supabase is based on AWS :)

how are you managing latency between all these servers?

why not consolidate the uptime robot with the betterstack's uptime checker?

have you ever tried railway? I think it can be pretty useful

Why do you not use betterstack for uptime monitoring?

Where is Jared?

At this scale, you could just buy a dedicated server in a datacenter

Do it makes any sense for you to run any of those services on a 25$ dollars or cheaper VPS?

I was just about to use AWS :)

“Who doesn’t like next js other than a lot of people” 😂

can you develop on why you avoid using aws ?

But why Heroku? It's 1GB RAM instance for $50 is insane.

Chad devs use VPS, mega chads have their own physical servers

I'm here from tiktok waiting for jared

so, to run a SAAS we need loads of SAASs.

So these costs are with how many monthly users using your platform? 🤔

I swear by Azure!

Try ICP (Internet Computer) and let us know what you think.

Why is cpanel not a good option ?? .. pay for cpanel and point a domain on it

No Heroku, cuz, support is BAD in my experience, they shut down my application for days without a legit reason, luckily that was a PoC application. AWS is bit of expensive however, by far the best support team, most fast, reliable DB, less latency, RDS ever I see.

There are just too many horror stories about Vercel ! I would steer clear of them, one DDOS and say goodbye to profitability.

How many users do u have right now that pays u monthly

Vercel and Heroku both run off AWS so you can never actually get away from AWS

Is it me or did you miss the big one Firebase

So you went from 6-700 usd/m on aws to 600 usd/m spread over 7 services whereof at least a few will massively overcharge regularly... sounds... not like a win?

Do you use an identity provider?

If you know what youre doing AWS can be super cheap

how do you earn money from these projects ?

you should try supabase

Sir please tell us how to build SAAS business for 49$ per month including all these sir z🙏🙏🙏

Hmmm I wonder what cloudfare is doing behind the scenes. I know they have the checkbox to confirm you're human.

"Don't use AWS use Vercel" "Vercel screwed us over but AWS hasn't" The hell did I just watch

You could run all this on a $50 VPS

It seems it is easier to build a SAAS these days than hosting and running it using servers.😂😂😂

What about moving all storage to Wasabi? Heard they're one of the cheapest?

I clicked like after you said "I hate AWS" 😅 Honestly don't even get why people keep praising this UNREASONABLY hard-to-use service

I hope they contact you after seeing this video? Nah? Yeah probably not gonna see it even.

Do not rely on cloudflare. Only use the services that can be easily replaced and always be ready to move to another provider. Because when cloudflare decides to fuck you over its game over. And just in general its a really bad advise to lock yourself in a specific ecosystem. You can do it if you think its the right decision, but suggesting it to others is stupid. A "Senior" Dev should know better.

You can tell someone is a junior developer just by listening to them

ver-cel

Obviously doesn’t setup proper connection timeouts and then gets upset when they have to pay for their own architecture choices…