<p>What's it cost me to operate this sprawling webapp empire?</p>
<h3>Tech</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://vercel.com/">Vercel</a> (hosting): $20 / mo</li>
<li><a href="https://neon.tech/">Neon</a> (postgres): $19 / mo</li>
<li><a href="https://postmarkapp.com/">Postmark</a> (email): $10 / mo</li>
</ul>
<h3>Marketing</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ulysses.app/">Ulysses</a> (text editor): $3.33 / mo</li>
<li><a href="https://typefully.com/">Typefully</a> (twitter client): $16 / mo</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Total</strong>: $68.33 / mo</p>
<p>Potential additional costs:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://ahrefs.com/">Ahrefs</a> (SEO analytics): $99 / mo. I haven't splurged on this yet but likely will in the next month, SEO being so critical to my marketing strategy across all products.</li>
<li><a href="https://clickhouse.com/">Clickhouse</a> (real-time analytics): $500 / mo. The natural next step for my stealth analytics product. Considering the cost, I'm holding off until usage requires the additional expense over a Postgres DB.</li>
<li>Scaling costs: We're approaching the limits of the basic tiers for Vercel, Neon, and Postmark. Soon enough the costs for those will start to increase with our usage.</li>
</ul>


Lumpcorp’s Operating Costs

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