I can understand having setup a company inside an EU country, but the lesson I got as a developer is that I need to think bigger if you want to have a sustainable business. You can build and validate startup ideas very cheaply by either using budget hosting, or trials of cloud products. EU companies often have to go down the path of consulting part-time, or building the product for one customer who covers most costs with the goal of extracting V2 as a general product.
Developers can have a very idea idea of cost management and what is valuable. They may be either blowing their employer's money on inefficient AWS solutions, or they are building their own k8s cluster on cheap VPSes because they felt that the managed solutions were expensive. It's an easy trap to fall into. You need to have a balance that is sustainable and productive. It was much easier to understand the whole space when we were building on LAMP or Ruby-on-Rails than it is now.
It's best to have a partner who is very business-savvy to help with navigating these options. If you only look at it from the tech perspective you'll fail quickly.
Developers can have a very idea idea of cost management and what is valuable. They may be either blowing their employer's money on inefficient AWS solutions, or they are building their own k8s cluster on cheap VPSes because they felt that the managed solutions were expensive. It's an easy trap to fall into. You need to have a balance that is sustainable and productive. It was much easier to understand the whole space when we were building on LAMP or Ruby-on-Rails than it is now.
It's best to have a partner who is very business-savvy to help with navigating these options. If you only look at it from the tech perspective you'll fail quickly.