That's really great, happy to hear.

I didn't mean to refute what you shared. In fact I was reinforcing some of your points. Doing things the cheap way is arguably the best way. Learning new tech while building is good, but I wouldn't recommend new tech to build a SaaS.

My concern was copycats. Some starters reading your post may have this feeling that "because Panelbear did it with Clickhouse and Kubernetes and Django, that's the only way to do it." What it really should read is "because Panelbear used what he knew best, he was able to focus on getting customers; that's the only way to do it."