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> The previous day I was experimenting with Google Cloud Run, trying to migrate our Next.js staging environment from Vercel to there to save some money. I assumed I misconfigured that service and turned it off and went about my day.

I am sorry but who sees a $100 sudden charge, assumes misconfiguration and just goes about their day without digging deeper right away?

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Are you one of those devs that mistakenly assumes that you salary constitutes 90% of your cost to the company, when in fact it’s closer to 40%?

You want me to spend an hour trying to save the company $100? We just spent $250. And that’s not the half of it. If the company is expecting me to result in $5 in revenue for every dollar they spend on me, we really just lost out on more than $1000.

I’ve worked many places where we didn’t think about opportunity costs. I’ve also been laid off many times.

The author in another comment posted this which very clearly indicated they are bootstrapping a low cash side project from their own wallet:

> If this were a business and someone else's money I'd do the same. This is a bootstrapped side project coming out of my own wallet. If money wasn't an issue, I'd probably just allow people to download images for free.

We usually spend about $60/month at Google anyways, so $100 wasn’t a crazy jump. That could be one left on Cloud Run instance. When it jumped to $300 total after disabling it that’s when I got worried.

But you’re not the author, and still went with incredulity as your response. My question still stands.

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