Having a small experience of this with a hobby project (an AI-powered chat bot). First versions, for each bot, I just cloned the repo and did a new deploy. That's finally become unworkable, so now I'm converting the project so that one server can handle many bots.
Getting to punt on all that overhead definitely helped the initial "launch", and IMO the code quality. It's proving incredibly easy to switch it over, and I think a lot of that is coming from how polished I was able to make the core of it.
Reminds me of Factorio: First you spaghetti (shitty probe project), then you mainbus (vertical scaling, haha), then you city block (horizontal scaling).
So... while I respect avoiding shameless self-promotion, referencing your hobby project, or at least including it in your "About" info would be cool, for those interested. :)
Getting to punt on all that overhead definitely helped the initial "launch", and IMO the code quality. It's proving incredibly easy to switch it over, and I think a lot of that is coming from how polished I was able to make the core of it.
Reminds me of Factorio: First you spaghetti (shitty probe project), then you mainbus (vertical scaling, haha), then you city block (horizontal scaling).