When people start paying you.
The day someone gives you money, the rules change. Downtime is now your problem, data loss is now your problem, and the bill has to be smaller than the revenue.
Four things that become real.
None of these need a platform migration. They are switches you turn on when the moment arrives.
Taking money
Checkout and plans in the same project, with subscribers joined to your users table.
Not losing data
Point-in-time restore, and exports you can keep somewhere that is not us.
Changing things safely
Previews with their own data mean a schema change gets tested against a real copy first.
The bill stays legible as you grow.
Growth should change your revenue faster than it changes your infrastructure cost — and you should be able to see which is which.
- Hosting is flat. The $20 does not scale with traffic.
- Variable cost is opt-in. Credits are bought, never auto-charged.
- Usage in dollars. Per feature, so you know what your margin actually is.
Give the thing you built a real home.
A project with hosting, a database, sign-in and storage from the first minute — for $20.