I'm building Mimestra — it finds viral short-form videos, breaks down why they went viral, and turns that into a shoot-ready brief. This post is about one infra decision that saved the project. The cheap path that bit me For Instagram data I went the obvious cheap route: a burner IG account + instagrapi , self-hosted. Great in testing. Then, right as I onboarded first users, the account got suspended. No data, broken product, worst timing. If you've scraped IG yoursel...