Hacker squats are getting more popular and are extremely important. All I need is $5/month for digital ocean.

No other bills is freeing. While the Facebook slaves think their $100k salary is a lot but go into debt with $7000/month condos.

It's actually possible to run a startup entirely on 5$ droplet. I would suggest switching to Vultr (still 5$ but 0.75 GB and block storage and they accept bitcoin)

It's motivating to get that first paying clients quickly to pay for server. (ramen profitable)

I made the mistake of using a GoDaddy VPS costing around 600$ a year, recently found a VPS in my country for 60$ a year.

Yes vultr is great

This is a highly absurd comment. No one I know is paying anything more than $3000/month and they all make well over $100k as software developers.

I love how when people come up with these numbers they cite salary-only/pre-negotiation/entry-level income and then they compare this to a small-family sized rent expense to justify your "typical" SV absurdity.

The fact is, many people make well over that with stock options, raises, etc. And even while making that money, lots of my friends in their mid-20s opt to live with multiple roommates and flex their living rooms to reduce their rent cost further.

3000/month is still absurd. I think 2000 is about the most you can justify on a 100k salary without having risking emergencies bankrupting you.

The relevant point there may be the "well over 100k" part. It would not be surprising to me if we're talking 200k total liquid comp.

It depends also if the money is going towards rent or a mortgage. If it's the latter you can always sell your house to get more cash.

> It depends also if the money is going towards rent or a mortgage. If it's the latter you can always sell your house to get more cash.

Not always, only if you have positive equity. Its quite possible to have a mortgage without that.

Well it's probably foolish to go even more into debt with a mortgage if you are at risk of having a negative net worth.

> Well it's pretty foolish to go even more into debt with a mortgage if you are at risk of having a negative net worth.

Negative equity is usually something that happens after you take a mortgage. And whenever you take a mortgage, there is a risk of getting into a negative equity situation (though the degree of risk varies.)

100k at Facebook is what you get straight out of undergraduate (and that's on the low end, if you don't negotiate).