Technology Startup
BuildFast Labs
A 10-person startup built their entire dev infrastructure for $15/month
$15 (down from $200+)
Monthly dev tool costs
10 — no per-seat fees
Team members
Fully self-hosted with Drone
CI/CD pipeline
The challenge
An early-stage startup was burning through their runway on developer tools: GitHub Enterprise, Datadog, and PagerDuty cost $200+/month before they even started paying for hosting. They needed a cost-effective dev stack without compromising on quality.
The solution
Set up three TinyPod servers: one for Gitea + Drone CI, one for Grafana + Prometheus + Uptime Kuma, and one for staging environments. The entire dev infrastructure runs for $15/month with no per-seat licensing.
GiteaDroneGrafanaPrometheusUptime Kuma
“We're pre-revenue, so every dollar matters. TinyPod let us build enterprise-grade dev infrastructure at indie-hacker prices.”
James T. · CTO, BuildFast Labs