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!

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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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?

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is o3 that much better in pro? Premium o3 seems pretty damn good

what’s nuts is if i didn’t have o3 for writing PRDs the vibe coding cost would be double

i love that vibe coding is your biggest line item

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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?

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

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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

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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

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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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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 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?

Ah this is for apps in aggregate? Which one’s run up the biggest bill?

AWS has 8 servers (most APIs for mini apps one for snapchain)
Cloudflare has 10 serverless APIs
Vercel hosts the front ends

Dear lord, what do you use AWS for versus Vercel re: hosting? (New to vibe coding)

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maybe that’s true but 1 year of that AWS is basically half the expense and in the end you get a highly versatile machine (maybe even an m3 ultra with like 500gb ram 🤣)

I want to start a company but it feels like a ton of exploratory work and also I did drag my feet a bit so for me it’s probably half paid for itself and I only use maybe 100gb ram on heavy workloads so far but idk models will be a different story and the cost I’m actually scared of

Luckily fc memecoins paid for all of this and living expenses to work on it but I’m trying not to have no savings again by the end

the thing is i’m not running a company or trying to start one and i don’t see myself doing this long term so it doesn’t really make sense to do permanent purchases

I bought a Mac Studio + Neynar parquet to supplement running snapchain/postgres on hubs which was about $10k capex + $5k opex for about 1.5 years of parquet if helpful. Also running small models on the studio pretty often.

Can’t really ask for funds till the data feels valuable though

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oh god i have horror memories of this and of buying eth directly from people cause the exchanges would put holds on the transfer

i had to deploy a contract during ~peak eth congestion some years ago and also burned $800 doing that

thanks for the breakdown!

self hosted on cheapest possible server that can support it!

Is the AWS a self hosted node? or is that running the APIs?