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icedchai on Sept 10, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Positive Cashflow Matters

That depends how resource utilization (really, AWS/cloud costs) scale with customer growth. Often it scales poorly when your SaaS is really a bunch of prototype-isp "MVP" code.

nl on Sept 11, 2019 [–]

Of course, "it depends" should always be taken as given.

Nevertheless, it's unusual that a typical database-driven SAAS web app on a couple EC2 servers can't scale beyond a single user.

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