This is really missing the point. Ignoring the obvious missing things (salaries, computers, cost to carry inventory, servers), the bigger issue is that the internet has become massively more competitive over the last couple years and the costs to acquire and keep customers are much higher than they used to be. The importance of sophisticated sales and marketing teams has increased a lot, and the costs along with them. It's easier than ever to build a small-to-medium sized SaaS company (see: the excellent Indie Hackers community), but harder than ever to build a scalable startup.

Also, the post alludes to selling physical things, and the costs associated with that are still very high, and have arguably increased, per the ever-increasing size of Kickstarter campaigns and still high failure rates.

An alternative title would be "How do the basic tools for stringing together an MVP for a software product cost?".

The things covered in this content are only relevant to a very specific niche, and brutally misrepresent the wild and intense amount of effort, knowledge acquisition, and capital that go in to something that even remotely resembles an actual startup company.

This is a great toolkit for putting together a product. Not a business.

> Github

Think of it as simply a place in the “cloud” to store our code and provide use with free hosting for our website. Cost? FREE forever

What?? If you want your code to be stolen, sure it's free i.e. public repos are free, not private repos.

Extremely low information article... A startup obviously has more costs than a domain and email.

Carry the five, add the expected ego crushing, broken relationships and ulcers...

I get infinity.

It costs infinity to build a startup.