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by adishasanic 1278 days ago
Thank you for your additional feedback. I replied to your comment below, but to reply to your additional feedback here:

There is no organization behind Veonid — it's just me who designed UI/UX and bootstrapped development of it. Currently, Veonid costs me $0 per month because services like Vercel, Hasura and Clerk are completely free to a certain extent. If there is more than 5000 monthly active users, it will cost just $25 per month for Clerk, and that price I can easily pay for 1-2 years without regretting. I plan to try to include some premium features in the next few months with a goal for Veonid make at least enough monthly income to pay for itself.

Of course, there is a risk of any app shutting and no guarantee that anything will remain for years and decades, but what I can say is I intend to keep Veonid hosting up for at least the next 12 months even if almost noone uses it. With more users, and especially if there are premium users at some point, I intend to keep it much longer.

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You could look at getting out of the hosting game by providing a "bring your own hosting option". Then everyone is happy. If you have a good tool that doesn't resonate with individuals, you then have the option to pivot to providing a premium version for bigger businesses that is hosting-agnostic.
Thank you for your suggestion, but I don't intend to do that. Veonid users data is hosted by Amazon Web Services.