Shipping
Notes from building small products on the side: what it costs, what it earns, and what I would skip if I started again on Monday.
What a small product actually costs to run
The hosting bill is the cheapest part and everyone budgets for it anyway. Here is the whole list, including the lines that only appear after you have customers.
Pricing a side project
Developers price on what it cost to build. Customers pay for what it saves them. The gap between those two numbers is most of the mistake.
Ship it at sixty percent
Not a case for sloppiness. A case for the specific insight that the last forty percent of a feature is unknowable until strangers touch the first sixty.