What would it cost to run...
Curated app profiles with real monthly prices from our knowledge base — same engine as stack reports. Pick a scenario or plan your own app.
Wordle at peak
Josh Wardle ran Wordle for millions of players on essentially static hosting — here's what that costs today.
100k DAU profile
Twitter clone
A timeline with follows, posts, and live updates — priced like a full-stack realtime app.
100k DAU profile
Instagram clone
Photo uploads, feeds, and heavy object storage — the bill is mostly storage and egress.
100k DAU profile
ChatGPT wrapper
A thin UI around an LLM API — compute and storage for conversations, not training.
10k DAU profile
Newsletter service
Scheduled sends, subscriber lists, and background jobs — the classic email SaaS shape.
10k DAU profile
Indie SaaS
Your typical bootstrapped B2B tool — SSR dashboard, Postgres, 1k users.
1k DAU profile
Notion clone
Blocks, databases, and real-time edits — the bill looks like multi-tenant SaaS with background sync.
10k DAU profile
Shopify storefront
Product pages, checkout, and image CDN — e-commerce hosting where storage and egress show up fast.
5k DAU profile
Discord at scale
Guilds, channels, and always-on voice-adjacent presence — priced as a realtime stack, not a chat widget.
50k DAU profile
Ride-sharing backend
Matching drivers to riders — mobile API with location writes and push, not a marketing site.
100k DAU profile
Link-in-bio at viral scale
One static-ish page per creator, millions of profile views — edge compute wins until you add accounts.
200k DAU profile
Internal admin dashboard
Retool-shaped back-office for 50 people — low traffic, still needs Postgres and auth.
200 DAU profile
Figma lite
Collaborative canvas with live cursors — websockets, storage for assets, and bursty compute.
5k DAU profile
GitHub for indies
Repos, CI webhooks, and code search — SaaS with jobs and serious storage per user.
10k DAU profile