You're claiming all of this without a product launch? If so, this doesn't seem like a counterpoint at all.
That's a nonsense reply, and kind of an ad hominem attack. The claim was:
>"It will make your project 1000x more difficult to maintain and extend in the short term for no significant gain."
Nowhere was "launching" anything mentioned. Nice of you to move the goalposts wherever you want to. My project is doing just fine, thank you. Sorry I didn't rush out a piece of crap that nobody wants to use?
I hope you have a better day tomorrow.
That hasn't been my experience at all. Your "1000x" claim is so far off the mark. In my experience it's maybe 1.001x more difficult, if not less difficult in so many ways.
I built my startup's tech stack on serverless functions and serverless database, and serverless storage, and it's been really very easy. I don't have any server that can go down, I don't have to worry about server maintenance, but I do have to worry about AWS removing older Lambda runtimes and needing to update my code to run on the new ones when necessary, which isn't all that often. But that's about it. It just runs, 24/7/365, and costs me practically nothing while building out the company. My total AWS bill for the last 2 years is about $0.40/month (less than $10 total for 2 years), and the product is mature and launching soon.
And the great thing is, this is built to scale from day 1. I don't have to worry about load balancers or bursts of traffic or anything that would bring a company down right as it's getting traction.