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[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@JasonrShuman Me too!

[Alex Nguyen @alexcooldev]

I just received the bill this month (30 days) for my app’s operational costs, running at:

💰 $19.5K/month
👥 250k total users
📈 70K monthly active users

Breakdown:
- Supabase: $113
- Supabase auth: $0 (free first 100k MAU)
- Railway server: $78
- OpenAI API: $472 (Both LLM and Vision)
- Speech-to-text API: ~$365 (1,1m mins)
- RevenueCat: $131
- Claude API & Llama: $87
- Text-to-speech API: $89

Total: ~$1335 (not include the 15% fees from the App Store and Google Play and 5% from Lemon Squeezy)

I used to think cutting costs was the answer.
Turns out, doubling down on marketing worked better.
Build and grow first worry about costs later.

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@AlmostMedia Have you seen Oppenheimer yet?

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@chrissyteigen You would have the best time. Go enjoy.

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@prawn_meat https://t.co/y1pLeZCqDk

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@GraduatedBen Yes and it would be xxxvvii if we calculated during Roman times but methods change

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@shwood Were you on the ring road?

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@chrissyteigen Stay inside at https://t.co/1v24CzZScz

[South America @SouthPark]

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[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

We’ve been living in the matrix.

[UNO @realUNOgame]

🗣You 🗣DO NOT🗣 need to pull a card until you have a color that matches the discard pile. 🗣

[South America @SouthPark]

Hello. And welcome to... Cartman's Escape Room! You are about to enter the most diabolical and evil place ever invented: SKOOOOL! Many go in, but few come out alive. #CartmansEscapeRoom

[Eight O'Clock Coffee @8OClockCoffee]

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[A Small Fiction @ASmallFiction]

"Nice library. Is one of these a trick book?"

"How so?

"Like you pull it off the shelf and a hidden door opens."

"Oh. Yeah, all of them."

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Thrilled about this. https://t.co/wmGQIJfzvN @ollie

[Eight O'Clock Coffee @8OClockCoffee]

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[Eight O'Clock Coffee @8OClockCoffee]

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[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

Nice win by @megynkelly and team today!

https://t.co/mi5vPBoIRg

[Clue Master @escaperoomnyc]

@albertwenger Nice work!