TCO Dashboard for Micro-SaaS
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SaaS Cost AnalysisMicro-SaaS ToolsInfrastructure PlanningIndie Hackers
来源平台: idea-spark
A simple web app that helps solo SaaS founders and micro-SaaS teams calculate and forecast their true total cost of ownership (TCO) for different infrastructure and deployment options. It models costs for hosting, databases, APIs, and third-party services across AWS, Vercel, Render, Fly.io, etc., helping prevent budget overruns.
目标用户
Solo or 2-person indie hacker teams building B2B SaaS products who are actively choosing between platforms like Vercel, Supabase, and Digital Ocean, and are currently tracking costs manually in a spreadsheet.
核心差异点
Focuses exclusively on the micro-SaaS niche with pre-built models for their typical stack (e.g., Vercel + Supabase + Stripe + SendGrid), delivering actionable, apples-to-apples comparisons that generic cloud calculators fail to provide.
解决方案
A web-based calculator (Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL) where users input their estimated usage (e.g., monthly active users, storage needs, compute hours, specific third-party API usage). The app uses public pricing APIs and a maintained dataset to generate month-by-month and yearly cost projections across multiple providers, presenting side-by-side comparisons in a simple table and chart.
关联痛点
Developers and businesses are concerned about unpredictable and high infrastructure/cloud deployment costs.
MVP 范围
Manual input form for 5-7 core resource types (e.g.
serverless function invocations
database storage/operations
bandwidth
transactional emails).
Cost projection engine for 4 major platforms: Vercel
AWS (Lightsail/Amplify)
Render
and Digital Ocean App Platform.
Simple comparison table and 12-month forecast chart for selected providers.
Export projections to CSV.