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YesClaude Code · 9 Jun 2026

I went from paying $20ish a month to $0

kaydub on Hacker News

went from paying $20ish a month to $0

In the thread “Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers”, replying to this comment

Helped: Rebuilding entire app stack and mobile apps from scratch.

… So what was once a spring boot app running in AWS ECS with alb + cloudfront (and yeah, some sqs+lambda python processes, s3 buckets for storage, aurora rds for db) is now a super lean apigw + lambda + dynamodb stack with a svelte frontend. I went from paying $20ish a month to $0. I also built a flutter app for android and ios that utilizes the same backend as the frontend webapp with feature parity. …