costs for running my fc projects so far this month, sharing cause couple people have asked (NOT ASKING FOR MONEY) -- again, NOT ASKING FOR MONEY, just sharing info!

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You are killing it on farcaster love seeing what u are doing and using your repos to try and rock a mini-app

again NOT asking for money just want to share for visibility, and i'd say ~10% of this isn't FC related it's for blended costs on other projects

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today, it's the latter that won

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Just to check you're applying to the Octant retro grants?

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Sorry Kasra it’s PERMISSIONLESS 😇 😇 second I realized I could nom you whether you liked it or not I did that shit eeep

@keccers.eth did on my behalf which is very nice of her!! i truly don’t want any donations or sponsorship or etc though cause it severely changes the incentives for me (not saying i wouldn’t be happy if the dev rewards changed sorting tho)

Just to check you're applying to the Octant retro grants? https://farcaster.xyz/tayyab/0x3117908c

it cost 1.5 SOL to deploy a program (contract?)? that seems way too high!

@0xmert do you know what's going on here?

from what i understand the initial program deployment cost (~1.5 SOL) is standard for anything that stores even a tiny bit of data, the thing i didn’t account for was the tx fees that i had to eat for anonymity’s sake, every new “PDA creation” (i barely know what that means) cost me 38c

do you have a sense of why the Solana fees were so high? that seems crazy. is that always the case?

how much difference in gas fees if those sol mini apps were on base

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idk! that’s mostly a one time thing so idk if it’s worth it, but to be clear there’s other services that i’m getting comp’d (my GPU stuff is free bc an old coworker runs the cloud hosting i use)

helpful! thanks for sharing!!! i once got AWS credits for attending a conference -- would that be helpful?

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no I agree totally different games, impossible to compare

I wanted to move away from vercel but that's easier said than done 😂

not to be rude but if someone’s stuff fits in a $5 vps they’re not playing the same game as me, i often need GPUs, servers with >24 cores, etc

Should learn from @degenfans, everything on a usd 5 vps 😂

I'm not exceeding 60 I think, not paying for vibe, neynar 10 vercel 20 vps 20 and some credits here and there, alchemy, upstash, Venice for agents

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income is listed somewhere too!!! ~2k total rewards from merkle in the 3-4 months i’ve been here, also not counting money people i’ve found here have paid me to do work for them

Just curious, how long have you been coding?

this is just cursor, not counting claude code directly (i usually do 2-3 multiple sessions of claude code at a time, cursor for touch ups)

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cursor costs breakdown here: https://farcaster.xyz/jc4p/0x2f62890f

Yeah thats the plan. 

But I can’t find the docs related to snapchain setup 🥲

yeah absolutely! what provider are you trying to use, AWS?

Could you help me with the docs to set up the Snapchain node?

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Still doesn't have wsl2 connectivity, only ssh and container unfortunately.

i’ve created or updated code for 25 repos for fc projects this month, i have 35 mini apps and do data analysis, github here: https://github.com/jc4p?tab=repositories

i tried windsurf a while ago but it didn’t have proper windows subsystem for linux support at the time and i haven’t tried it again yet

What did you vibe code? And have you tried Windsurf?

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ah makes sense. fwiw Claude has been crushing PRDs

it’s a fixed monthly cost for the sub but most of my usage is for using o3 for requirements docs and implementation roadmaps and etc, sometimes if claude code gets stuck on something i ask o4-mini-high for help

Imagine the GPT Pro split is mostly toward bug fixing?

i have 35 mini apps and host public datasets of fc data on huggingface

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Another reason to not write anything for SOL

i went into it expecting to spend $5, learned i had to spend $150, said ok fine, ended up spending $800

I'm just a guy with an ipv4 address and a private key

i run a snapchain node but i don’t have an etl setup to get structured data // i use neynar for “what are the most recent 300 posts by this user?” etc, i use my node for “who is ___’s top 5 friends?” or etc, analysis type shit

Genuine question, if you run a Snapchain node what neynar services do you pay for?

0 income from the apps directly, $32 from fc company directly this week