A few years ago I co-founded a gaming database and community. We built it over six years with an agency on a proper enterprise stack (Kafka, Elasticsearch, Flink, the works). It had a real audience of about 25,000 users and I'm still, to this day, very proud of it... But the running costs and complexity made it financially unsustainable, and we eventually had to say goodbye and shut it down, something that still haunts me to this day. So I'm doing it again, with a small team of 2 others - we'v...