If I knew what I was doing, I would agree with this sentiment. But I'm a novice at building product-caliber stuff, so I don't know where to begin other than I want it to be simple to deploy and not eat more than like $10k/yr at scale with a million users in the year.
At smaller scales, I want my whole app to cost < $1/user/mo
Basically, I'm building a course app. We teach high schoolers how to build real products such as Wildfire Simulator in Unity or a Webapp. (I already sell my product to school districts, but am trying to build some in-house custom features and better reporting compared to the third-party tools we're currently using, and then also enable some AI tutoring features in the future).
We host videos, interactive exercises, and quizzes basically. It's kind of like a Masterclass + Brilliant.org
We also have a couple of interesting real-time features such as an office hours queue (so as students are going through one of our projects they can ask a question, and then we group similar questions together and answer the group on a live video call).
Would love to design the system right such that we don't have to completely redo stuff in the near future.
