From Excel to Cloud: Building a Production Spaced Repetition App for $5/month

This case demonstrates how individual developers can build production-grade software on minimal cloud budgets—a shift that's democratizing app development and challenging the assumption that sophisticated applications require expensive infrastructure. By combining Azure's free tiers with solid architectural choices and modern frameworks like Blazor, the project provides a practical blueprint for cost-effective development that educators and developers can adapt to their own projects.