FYI if you see posts about how "cohost is paying $46,000 a month for 12,000 users" please know that the vast majority of that is wages for the people actually working fulltime on the product, as they refuse to have people work for free or for subsistence wages

Mocking them for what is constantly trumpeted as the ethical way to run a business is pretty crass if you ask me

EDIT: some people are trying to point out the wages aren't the problem but when you mock them for having 46k in expenses a month for a website that serves 12k people then you're effectively saying the wages are the problem because most of that is fair wages!

I've even seen some people do back of the napkin math like "ok so I use this hosting then pay two mods with low wages", NO. WRONG. And what? You're gonna run a business without legal services? Tax services? Payroll?

So your business plan is to not pay yourself or engineers, underpay a couple mods, and somehow avoid all the overhead inherent to running a business? Okay cool good chat