Thanks, Abimelex! I'm glad you like DevUtils!

I had almost 0 followers when I started building DevUtils & Black Magic :)

Thank you!

Sorry that the post give you that impression.

I do have some links in the post that link to the product, but yeah I agree the context is a bit vague for the HN crowd. I added a small notice to the post hopefully to fix it.

FYI, I'm not trying to promote the product, it's the story I want to share.

Cheers!

I really appreciate you taking your chances and building something for yourself and being able the live off of it is even better. I'd call it "hack your life" ;) and find Timwi's reaction overly negative.

I also share the feeling it could have been a Tell HN instead of a Show HN.

But let's be honest, of course you want to promote your product. It's not a bad thing to admit that.

Thanks, sdiepend! I definitely should have used “Tell HN”

Thank you, it was an interesting read.

Platform risk and spam is definitely a concern.

I have seen a few people struggling with their Twitter SaaS being attacked by spammers and get suspended. Trying hard not to step into the same issue.

Other than that, I think Twitter Dev Community team is very supportive and encouraging. The new V2 API announcement is pretty awesome.

thanks!

Thank you for the sub and good luck!

Thanks! You can see my complete tech stack here: https://tdinh.notion.site/What-is-my-tech-stack-2fe29f9df531...

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm an average developer, studied Software Engineering, and worked in the industry for 7 years before going full-time on my side projects.

I always point people to freecodecamp.org to learn to code, they have a great roadmap and free. You should check it out.

Good luck!

Yes it is the product. Thank you and noted on linking the product!

I only use the official Twitter API.

My last AWS bill is ~$600

It's for EC2, RDS, and bandwidth, mostly evenly contributed.

I‘m running the system at 70% spare capacity.

I'm not worrying too much about the cost as of now because I have some free credits to spend.

Also, it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

> it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

How about cutting that cost to 1/10 of what you’re paying AWS, for a much better server? Since you’re running EC2, I assume you’re able to manage a server. Get a Heztner server and run your db locally:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax?count...

Run back up hourly if you need to. You do not need AWS, not for what you’re using them for.

I have expiring free credits and I really like RDS Performance Insights :)

I would probably move to somewhere else after the credits run out. Will check out Heyzner then. Thanks for recommending.