Know your bare-bones cost so survival never corrupts you
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the day that that does happen, I cut everything down to the bone. We can run, we can run just we can run core services for about $300 a month.
Episode 180: Serial Churn (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:33:50 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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If Podcast Index funding ever dried up, Dave would cut everything to the bone. Core services can run for about $300 a month, which he could pay out of his own wallet, so he isn't worried. The pressure to keep a company from dying is where all the bad decisions start.
Not in the audio. The 'survive as a company is where bad stuff starts' point is the follow-on turn at 01:34:20. The cost figure is Dave's 2024 estimate.