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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by erdemozg on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:14AM (#29806440)
Do you exclusively use the official Twitter API or do you also perform web scraping? How much did you spend last month for runnig this system?
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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by trungdq88 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:27AM (#29806519)
I only use the official Twitter API.

My last AWS bill is ~$600

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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by xuki on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:01AM (#29806745)
What’s the breakdown of that? $600 is 20% of your revenue, and that’s a lot.
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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by trungdq88 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @04:18AM (#29806862)
It's for EC2, RDS, and bandwidth, mostly evenly contributed.

I‘m running the system at 70% spare capacity.

I'm not worrying too much about the cost as of now because I have some free credits to spend.

Also, it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by xuki on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @05:55AM (#29807513)
> it's more rewarding to double my revenue instead of halving my server cost.

How about cutting that cost to 1/10 of what you’re paying AWS, for a much better server? Since you’re running EC2, I assume you’re able to manage a server. Get a Heztner server and run your db locally:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax?count...

Run back up hourly if you need to. You do not need AWS, not for what you’re using them for.

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Re:Show HN: I make $3K/mo from a browser extension by trungdq88 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:27AM (#29807718)
I have expiring free credits and I really like RDS Performance Insights :)

I would probably move to somewhere else after the credits run out. Will check out Heyzner then. Thanks for recommending.

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