This is the correct answer! any early project needs to make big trade-offs and premature optimisation has killed many projects. You'll never please everyone (especially on HN) but you're not making it for everyone
Dunno, that’s already a fairly big website. The one I was working on in the past with 15k customers did around 15RPS. The large enterprise system I work on with 3k users does slightly less than that. That covers an awfully large amount of use cases already, and then you can get 30x more?