u/AgentHomey

I'm looking at moving my Elixir/Phoenix project from a small VPS provider into AWS; I've created a new account specifically for this project (mistake #1, I guess) and I'm using a 3rd party "PaaS" free tool to manage deployments and infrastructure.

Now, the issue is that I can't finish my setup because i'm encountering an "account must be verified" error, AWS Support said they needed to perform an internal verification review and that I'd get an update within 24 hours, but it's now been over 48 hours and I'm still blocked.

Has anyone else gone through this recently? How long did the verification take, and was there anything you had to do to get it resolved?

I've got a small niche tool in my country, it processes data from archaic gov APIs into a much more usable and accessible format and as a result I've got ~30 mil rows of data in Cloudflare's D1, well within the $5/mo plan limits (which is really cool!)

Anyway, I wrote a small script which basically tidied up the data but that also meant rewriting of rows; I mistakenly fired the script without double checking it locally and so it went over the D1 plan limits and on top of that, it also spent roughly $100 in overusage.

This is a mostly a free tool without revenue which I support on my own, so I can't really afford to pay the $100; I sent Cloudflare support an email explaining this and they were really nice about it and cleared the overusage.

So yeah, thanks Cloudflare support! :D

I'm a small indie/freelance developer and I have been working with Ruby for the past 12 years and I also picked Elixir around 2018; but I only used it on a handful of projects so I was never experienced enough to actually build anything meaningful at scale except small tools for myself; with the rise of agentic coding though, I've 5x my Elixir work and I've made a lot of apps for clients and myself.

If 3 years ago I was doing 90% ruby and 10% elixir; now it's the opposite; and on top of that, I absolutely love the Ash framework, it's such as huge productivity booster - for example: I've been working on an observability tool that I developed in typescript so I can quickly deploy on cloudflare ($5/mo plan FTW) but it's been a pain tbh even with Claude/Codex together; took 2 weeks to get it where I wanted; but I've just scrapped it and rebuilt it with Ash and it only took a whole day going through the codebase with Codex; it'll now cost me ~20-30 bucks but it's so much better and I can actually read through the code and like it :D

How's your agentic coding experience been? Are you liking Ash, is there some other secret sauce you're using, any cool libraries I should look at? Thanks! :)

I’m an engineer with more than 10 years of experience and I’m building a monitoring platform aimed at independent SaaS founders and small agencies. So trying to do some research and determine whether my proposed pricing/limits are genuinely useful and affordable.

Despite having worked on production software for years, I have a blind spot here: most of the monitoring and observability products I’ve used were selected and paid for by clients. I understood the technical value, but I rarely had to decide whether betterStack or similar tools were worth paying for from my own revenue.

My product is intended to put uptime and API monitoring, cron and heartbeat monitoring, error tracking, privacy-friendly analytics, incidents, and status pages under the same project-oriented platform. The goal is not to replace advanced logging, tracing, on-call, or enterprise incident-management systems but instead give founders and agencies who currently maintain several smaller tools just to answer basic operational questions.

The initial plan would cost $29 per month and include up to 10 projects (each with multiple team members, 50 uptime/API monitors; 100 cron/heartbeat jobs; 250K analytic events/mo; 50K error events/mo; a dozen status pages)

And the "upgraded" plan would cost $99 per month and include up to 50 projects (200 uptime/API monitors, 1K cron/heartbeat jobs, 2mil analytic events, 250K error events, 50 status pages with white-label option)

There would also be a free plan for one real production project, not a limited time trial.

I would like to understand what other SaaS founders currently use, how much they pay each month, and whether consolidating these functions would be valuable or whether specialised tools are preferable. Would either of these plans interest you? Which part would make you consider trying it first: uptime monitoring, cron monitoring, errors, analytics, status pages, or simply reducing the number of separate subscriptions?

I’m looking primarily for criticism from people currently running production SaaS products. I would rather discover that the pricing or scope is wrong before building the marketing around it.

Thank you! :)