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New comment by yoaso in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

yoaso — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:04:46 +0000

Fair point. Stack selection is mostly about what you already know. I chose managed services not because I optimized for it, but because that's the stack I'm comfortable with. That said, my real point was simpler: whatever stack you pick, figure out who's going to pay for it before you spend time on infrastructure decisions.

New comment by yoaso in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

yoaso — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:28:24 +0000

I'm taking the opposite approach - managed services all the way, and my monthly infrastructure costs are higher than what's described here.

No regrets. Infrastructure isn't the problem I'm trying to solve. The problem is: who's actually going to pay for this?

Optimizing infrastructure before you have customers is like designing a kitchen before you've written the menu. I launched within 72 hours of starting development and went straight to customer validation. The market feedback started coming in immediately.

Infrastructure costs show up in your bill. The cost of slow customer validation doesn't show up anywhere - until it's too late. That's the number I watch.

New comment by yoaso in "Ask HN: How do you get feedback for your products?"

yoaso — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:46:58 +0000

Posting on Indie Hackers has worked best for me so far. Both positive and negative reactions are useful. That said, it's inconsistent - some posts get real discussion, others get nothing. DMs are hard. X and LinkedIn both have weak response rates. The exception on X is when you catch someone tweeting about the exact problem at the right moment - then the conversation opens up naturally. The surprise was the Stripe App review process. The back-and-forth with the reviewer surfaced gaps in my feature set I hadn't noticed. The application process basically became a product review.

New comment by yoaso in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

yoaso — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:51:32 +0000

Damasio is exactly what I had in mind. The somatic marker hypothesis basically says emotions are the brain's shortcut for decision-making. That's a mechanism, not a mystical experience.