[bueno]

Great read.

This is especially interesting to me. My side project http://www.longboxed.com was recently launched to a modicum of regular users (~300). My app runs on Heroku on the free tier with the 'Hobby Basic' level of the Heroku Postgres database. All told it costs me ~9 dollars a month. No big deal.

However, if I ever stepped the site up to another tier I'd be looking at ~50 bucks for the database and ~36 bucks for another process instance. These expenses can add up fast for a site that doesn't currently generate any money.

Anyway - it is nice to see examples of introducing a pay model into your app after it has launched.

[heliostatic]

Congratulations on launching. I've been following your development on tumblr and it's been great seeing your process.