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Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase

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200 points dcu | 4 comments | 03 Jul 25 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.799s | source
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MattDaEskimo ◴[03 Jul 25 17:00 UTC] No.44457075[source]▶
My biggest issue with "cheaper" alternatives is the same pathway they all take.

Start cheap, gather market, then crank the costs after lock-in.

Even "open-source" is abused. First everything is open-source, and then reasons come out for why premium services will be closed source.

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1. refulgentis ◴[03 Jul 25 17:07 UTC] No.44457132[source]▶
This one isn't quite saying its cheaper, or even charging, I think you might get a laugh if you click through. I don't think we'll need to worry about the costs being cranked after lock-in.
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2. Imustaskforhelp ◴[03 Jul 25 17:14 UTC] No.44457203[source]▶
Is the word baas so horrified to people that they won't even click on the link to see that the code is a MASSIVE 1k loc (just using irony hehe)

But in all seriousness, I may be going on a tangent but I don't think that anybody can monetize code under less than 1k loc. Are there any cool examples anybody want to share?

Maybe "simple" api's would generally be the only thing that would be more monetizable and still fall under less than 1k loc. But still I would love hearing more about this kind of thing.

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3. owebmaster ◴[03 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44457277[source]▶
There are smart contracts in the Ethereum and Binance network making millions a day extracting transaction fees with much less than 1k loc. The code is even public.
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4. Imustaskforhelp ◴[04 Jul 25 05:37 UTC] No.44461435{3}[source]▶
Woah. Didn't expect it.

Can you give me some examples. Also I personally feel as if most of these are saturated and I don't think that I could earn a million with such loc. and maybe its me but personally I don't like touching most crypto since its grift. And the only one I'd like is monero for privacy but I doubt how much I need it anyway.