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I got 10 for 38$ CAD shipped from Aliexpress. You could probably get them for even cheaper right now (though the USD > CAD is worst than it was at the time).

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That's awesome, and that is dev boards or just the chip itself ?

I got the "NodeMcu Lua WIFI Internet Things development board based ESP8266 CP2102 Arduino" a while ago on eBay for $6.85 USD, price has now dropped to $4.76 USD, plus CAD is better-ish.

I am a ESP8266 fan but not sure that I'd be confident enough to do a product with the ESP8266.

Depends on what you want to do. I generally recommend the WeMos D1 mini, because there's only one of it, while there are like ten NodeMCU boards and only some are good. If you need something more bare, I recommend buying ESP8266 12E or 12F boards and using my small breakout:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/tiny-ESP8266-breakout

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