Post Alq7Bliul8X7eAtWM4 by Purple@woof.tech
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 (DIR) Post #Alq7Bliul8X7eAtWM4 by Purple@woof.tech
       2024-09-09T21:14:53Z
       
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       On the news of cohost shutting downI honestly never understood where #cohost's operating costs came from, originally I thought pay checks but even near the end they're still having $41k in expenses for only 17k active users. (almost $3,5/month/user) Does anyone know more about this? Is this a case of a company that should've moved away from AWS and onto a dedi or two, a long time ago? For reference, woof.tech on our latest calculable expense report were paying roughly 0,50 EUR (~$0,60) per user per month, and that's a number that would've only gone down the more users we'd have as our base costs remain very similar. (And we were storing a lot of posts from other instances not counting towards our user count, roughly >80% of our storage use!)I just can't figure out where their costs came from. And half a year ago they were even more excessive, the number I posted here is one of their more "optimal" months!
       
 (DIR) Post #Alq7DRorjV5YUkTk4O by penny@mk.noob.quest
       2024-09-09T21:37:17.903Z
       
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       @Purple@woof.tech It's employee wages, they were doing it full time
       
 (DIR) Post #Alq7YEJZ8ex8gwkRk0 by Purple@woof.tech
       2024-09-09T21:40:12Z
       
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       @penny Yeah some other people are telling me the same, but with $15k/month of income, surely you'd rather just keep the site online with one or two developers until:1. The website shrinks even further, making it unprofitable even with just basic maintenance2. The website grows over time, allowing you to bring more developers back onThat's a lot of money for a website, where people don't seem to be on because of future promises but because what's there right now. The product is profitable, active development of it isn't though
       
 (DIR) Post #AlqI5XSxxApnBffOOe by Purple@woof.tech
       2024-09-09T21:17:24Z
       
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       @electrocutie I genuinely think it's this, there is no other way right? I understand it for a website you're still very actively developing and dealing with unexpected growth, but I think they've known they're sinking for a good year now and I don't understand why they haven't resolved the hole in their bank account during this time(or at least not enough)
       
 (DIR) Post #AlqI5YGEzyFXeUikCW by soatok@furry.engineer
       2024-09-09T21:22:26Z
       
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       @Purple @electrocutie from orange sitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41493501
       
 (DIR) Post #AlqI5YzGIaGJu7mhNI by Purple@woof.tech
       2024-09-09T21:24:32Z
       
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       @soatok @electrocutie But in that case, surely they can just keep the site running but with a lot less developers? They have $15k/month in income, that would give you a developer or two, until you figure out how to make the website cheaper to operate, or to allow it to grow to the point where you can go back and bring more people on.Idk.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlqI5ZlTPKpKJeLCWO by soatok@furry.engineer
       2024-09-09T21:35:50Z
       
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       @Purple @electrocutie IIRC the four devs are in a polycule