[KloudTrader]

What are you using for the server resource provisioning for your hosted service? Firecracker on KVM? Current services like AWS Fargate/Lightsail containers/Google Cloud run are not competitive pricing wise for dynamic container spawning at scale unless you provision ahead of time. For this sort of services, your managed solution needs to be competitive with e.g. raw compute providers like DigitalOcean and Hetzner.

[paulgb]

We're running on GKE right now, which allows us to iterate quickly, and we'll focus on the unit economics as we scale. As part of our research we've talked to dozens of teams who have already implemented this architecture, and most of them ended up using EKS or GKE (a few did use Firecracker or raw VMs), so they're already subject to those prices and it isn't a problem for them. We know that the unit economics may never make sense for hosting free tools and services, but we're focused on high-value SaaS and internal tools. For our target users, our value proposition is that we replace engineering/devops effort, not just the raw compute we provide.