Side Project

Side Project
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When your "just for fun" side project with 81 users accidentally racks up 16 billion writes to AWS S3's Durable Object storage and you get hit with a $35k bill. Nothing says "good morning" quite like financial ruin from a hobby project.

The math here is wild: that's roughly 197,000 writes per user per month. Either this dev built the world's most aggressive logging system, or they created an infinite loop that makes fibonacci recursion look efficient. Pro tip: always set up billing alerts before deploying to production. Or in this case, before deploying to "81 people who probably don't even use it anymore."

The CloudFlare subreddit is the perfect place to share this nightmare—misery loves company, especially when that company also uses cloud services without reading the pricing docs.

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