Hildebrand: Subscribr Spends $2K Monthly on Ads, $1.5K on Tooling
Gil Hildebrand · How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown) · Dec 2, 2025 · at 13:59
Gil Hildebrand is detailing the recurring non-compute operating expenses for his SaaS business Subscribr.
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“I'm spending about 2000 dollars a month on ads, and I have another 1500 dollars a month. And other things like web scraping, hosting, and sending emails to my users.”
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