my Founders Directory deployments got paused turns out, i might actually be in hell💀 tldr- 324 MILLION Firestore read requests ₹18,330 in charges all this on October 15 alone 😭 not because I had thousands of users. but because 61 visitors generated over 3k pageviews. first thought? maybe i deployed too many changes using my Codex-driven changes but the insights were even more unexpected here's what the analytics showed: - 3,819 pageviews from just 61 visitors in just 2 days - 759 pageviews in a single hour - almost all suspicious traffic had no referrer - 5 US Chrome Mobile visitors generated ~1,973 pageviews in one day - 324 MILLION Firestore read requests - ₹18,330 in Firestore charges imagine paying ₹19K. for a side project. Vercel flagged excessive Fluid Active CPU usage and paused my deployment. so i started investigating. i checked my Codex chat history. it had accessed production only a handful of times. most of the QA was done on local servers. nowhere close to thousands of requests. the traffic looked more like an automated browser, scraper, testing agent, or a reload loop running JavaScript with an Android user agent. could be a bot, scraper, automated browser, or some kind of reload loop. still investigating the exact source. but 324 million database reads? not normal human traffic.

as much as id love to, all it is is to farm clicks and views on here, but again, everyone's path and journey is different in the time we live in, and this ai era that we're in right now (god bless), there's really no "one size fits all" kinda thing which people get into cs for in the first place. it just isnt the same anymore. you can't just do everything a "roadmap" tells you to and expect to land a 50LPA job after 6 months at the end of the day, life is all about embracing its uncertainty, and once you learn to love it, the game is all yours :)