[kevmo314]

It's somewhat ironic that the author advocates for keeping it simple and using pgvector but then buries a ton of complexity with an API server, auth server, Cloudflare workers, and durable objects. Especially given

> Supabase easily the most expensive part of my stack (at $200/month, if we ran in it XL, i.e. the lowest tier with 4-core CPU)

That could get you a pretty decent VPS and allow you to coassemble everything with less complexity. This is exemplified in some of the gotchas, like

> Cloudflare Workers demand an entirely different pattern, even compared to other serverless runtimes like Lambda

If I'm hacking something together, learning an entirely different pattern for some third-party service is the last thing I want to do.

All that being said though, maybe all it would've done is prolong the inevitable death due to the product gap the author concludes with.

[zxt_tzx]

Totally fair point. Thanks for taking the time to read through it! I guess I didn't want to use a VPS and then have to switch to something else if the product really worked, but I guess that rhymes with premature optimization.

Some other clarifications:

- I was also surprised with how expensive Supabase turned out to be and only got there because I was trying to sync very big repos ahead of time. I could see an alternative product where the cost here would be minimal too

- I did see this project as an opportunity to try out Cloudflare. as mentioned in the post, as a full stack TypeScript developer, I thought Cloudflare could be a good fit and I still really want it to succeed as a cloud platform

- deploying two separate API server and auth server is actually simpler than it sounds, since each is a Cloudflare Worker! will try to open source this project so this is clearer

- the durable objects rate limiter was wholly experimental and didn't make it into production

> All that being said though, maybe all it would've done is prolong the inevitable death due to the product gap the author concludes with.

Very true :(

[android521]

I am using a vps and it is dead simple and cheap. If my projects actually gained traction , switching from vps to a more scalable infra is not a big challenge. The biggest challenge is to find PMV as fast and as efficient as possible.

[ljm]

Not speaking for OP’s experience but I suppose that you might default to all this fancy serverless edge worker stuff if you learned how to code on their (usually generous) free-tier plans, or they were the only things you dealt with at work.

Meanwhile setting up a little VPS box would come more naturally if you learned in the era of the LAMP stack and got your hands dirty with Linux.

In fact I wonder if for some people that’s made worse by the tendency to split frontend and backend web development into completely separate disciplines when originally you did the whole thing.