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This sounds like a great project! One of the awesome things about App Platform is that scaling is built in. You can start with a Basic tier plan, and then scale your app up and eventually move to the Pro tier plan which allows horizontal scaling too. Chat functionality can be done via websockets on App Platform.
An additional note, you probably won’t need the nginx reverse proxy, App Platform will handle your apps core routing already!