22 days ago I shipped cheap-map.app — a crowdsourced map of cheap restaurants, shops, and gas stations across Vietnam, with a multi-merchant affiliate deals aggregator bolted on. ~50 organic users a day now,
hockey-stick just starting.
This is the build-log: real stack, real costs, three things that broke spectacularly and what I learned fixing them. If you're shipping an indie product solo, the boring infrastructure decisions matter more than the framework choice you
spent two weeks agonizing over (guilty).
## Why this exists
