Title: I run my entire consulting business on a 9.9MB Rust binary ($10/month, no cloud)

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I'm a solo fractional CTO. My entire company — cochranblock.org — runs as a single compiled Rust binary on bare metal. Axum + sled + SQLite + rust-embed, behind a Cloudflare tunnel.

The numbers:
- 9.9MB on ARM, 18MB on x86
- $10/month infrastructure (electricity + internet)
- 0 cloud services
- 11 repos, all Unlicense

The binary includes: web server, database, intake forms, booking calendar, community grant applications, static assets (zstd-packed), and monitoring. One process. One file.

I also wrote a whitepaper on edge AI over LoRa mesh networks using Candle — compiling inference + model weights + LoRa protocol into a 19MB binary that cold-boots in milliseconds: https://github.com/cochranblock/ghost-fabric

Architecture proof: https://github.com/cochranblock/cochranblock/blob/main/PROOF_OF_ARTIFACTS.md

Cost breakdown: https://cochranblock.org/stats

All source is public domain (Unlicense). AMA.
