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thomasfromcdnjs05/15/20253 repliesview on HN

Does mid six figure mean ~$500k?

That sounds insane for a crud app with one million users.

What am I missing?


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gbear60505/15/2025

I’ve seen startups with a thousand active users paying $50k/month (though that’s overall costs, not just db). It’s really easy to waste a lot of money doing nothing.

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ies705/15/2025

$500k for only 100 millions rows db also sounds crazy

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imhoguy05/15/2025

I bet it is cost of query processing (CPU) and traffic (network throughput) plus ofc provider markup.