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adesh_nalpettoday at 8:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Thank you! I spent a decent chunk of time designing PicoMQ, so the documentation had a natural progression.

Exactly, streams can essentially be rooms, and since the ordering is preserved, a Discord-like application is a strong use case. I’m even considering building one using PicoMQ as an example showcase.

The pricing is going to be dirt cheap, and the best part is how easy it is to scale up vertically or add nodes. For some raw numbers, assuming 1M messages/day, 200B per message, ~6GB/month, all-inclusive, it would be $30 to $150 a month, and storage would be the cheapest part.


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solevelopertoday at 8:09 PM

Yes, discord as an example would be awesome, exactly what I thought.

Is this back of envelope pricing include the traffic/bandwidth of the readers?

That could easily be 10-100x of number of messages.

This solution together with a cheap/free caching layer (especially for non members/writers) could be amazing.

BTW, a classic example would be an hn mirror. ;)

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