Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers
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HN comment orderFree is great, and you can get a decent mileage out of cobbling together a few services. But I'd personally be way too stressed and annoyed by worrying about the often very restrictive free tier limits. You can very easily blow through the network egress, for example. For things I want to be cheap I've started hosting a lot of things on Hetzner Cloud [1]. Even their cheapest instance (1vCPU/2GB RAM/20TB traffic) at 2.5 Euro/month can run a k3s Kubernetes…
Another good resource, on similar lines that I've come across: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev/blob/master/README...
So, how is this different/better than https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev ?
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 521
- Total comments
- 107
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-18 | Show HN: GitHub repo listing services with great free tier | 255kb | 7 | 3 |
| 2016-12-20 | Collection of services with great free tiers | andruby | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-12-21 | Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with great free tiersFirst breakout | rosstex | 156 | 26 |
| 2021-05-03 | Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiersBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | bryanrasmussen | 353 | 78 |
| 2024-04-21 | Stack on a BudgetHall induction | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-06-14 | Stack on a Budget (Free Tier Driven Development FTDD) | gslin | 3 | 0 |