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by collegeburner 1707 days ago
Interesting article. How much requests can you support for 20/month before losing money with this stack?

Also, I am curious though, what does his partner do usually if not frontend stuff? Unusual to go into business with a frontend engineer who then does 0 frontend work, no?

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I think he says the partner created the front end using React, doesn't he?

> My partner built the frontend. It’s very nice having someone to help with the frontend work!

> She built it using React, no special libraries.

> We setup a makefile so she can one command deploy to s3 and invalidate the cache. Developing at lightspeed.

> Interesting article. How much requests can you support for 20/month before losing money with this stack?

Ha, I haven't profiled it yet. I'm not too sure. But, I think a decent amount. If a slack team with 10000+ physicists signs up, I may need to talk to them offline.

I do plan on doing some stress testing in the future for fun, I'll try to remember to reply here.

> partner frontend

Yep, to repeat what steve_adams_86 said, she did the frontend completely. Usually I'm forced to do the frontend, it was very nice having someone else just do the whole thing without me.

Teams with this number of physicists exists only in CERN which uses self-hosted mattermost. Don't worry from that for now.
Thanks for the insight!