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Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by tweetle_beetle »

andreybaskov wrote: post #76
andrenotgiant wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

didn't help that they called it "Free forever" before taking it away. Lesson learned

understandable, but again, "forever" as in heat death of the universe? Sadly there is no such thing as forever either.

To be fair the CEO is quite comfortable using the word 'forever'. It was used as the title of the announcement to withdraw the Hobby tier and also specifically used to justify it:

> We’ve chosen to build a company that can last forever. This is why I have made the decision to prioritize profitability for PlanetScale. https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-forever

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by rajatkulk »

impulser_ wrote: post #59
outlore wrote: post #54

Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...

Yeah, and they became an actual profitable tech company which is extremely rare today.

Um well, they shouldn't have done that. "If it means they go broke and need to shut down for me to keep having my free tier DB for 3 tables and 2 users, so be it, go broke"

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by joshstrange »

JustSkyfall wrote: post #129
lateforwork wrote: post #68

Databricks Neon [1] has a free tier for their Postgres service. Neon's strength that allows them to offer a free tier lies in their serverless, cloud-native PostgreSQL architecture with a separation of storage and compute resources. This allows Neon to scale compute to zero automatically when the database is idle. [1] https://neon.com

They’re pretty infamous for having constant outages and downtime, wouldn’t recommend for something serious

I’m not saying that can’t or doesn’t happen but I’ve been using them for about 2 years now and never experienced it. To be fair, my traffic patterns could just not overlap with their outages but wanted to add a data point.

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by RagnarD »

samlambert wrote: post #103
arthurcolle wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then call it something else

we did. we called it the Hobby plan. we never said forever.

I'm pretty disinclined to ever use PlanetScale when the CEO is here either ignorant of what his company actually said, or actively gaslighting people.

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by DetroitThrow »

samlambert wrote: post #95
andrenotgiant wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

didn't help that they called it "Free forever" before taking it away. Lesson learned

we never said that

as much as I question why someone would trust a free "forever" offer, I have a lot more questions about a company that is denying what's in the public record.

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by DetroitThrow »

samlambert wrote: post #99
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If somebody built a service to try out planetscale or the fact that planetscale was constantly hyped around / sponsored some big names atleast in the youtube scale, I am pretty sure that some people went there thinking about the free forever and everything... I do think it was a little bad move because now you can't even test planetscale and the memories of its free stuff still might haunt some people

Were we supposed to just keep it up until we go out of business or something? Out of sheer duty. Like burn everything we built to the ground to keep the free tier going as long as possible? Endlessly indentured to provide a free service on the internet for people that will never pay us money so that the people that do pay us money can eventually have to move provider too because we are shutting down? I didn't enjoy d…

>I felt bad but I don't regret it at all.

Sure, it sounds like a marketing mistake, and you're owning up to it not being sustainable.

But you're burning trust with people before they even have a relationship with your company if you pretend it never happened.

It's much better to say "Sorry non-customers, this wasn't sustainable. I hope this new approach will better serve us both in the hobby use case and still be sustainable!"

Re: PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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Post by samlambert »

DetroitThrow wrote: post #147
samlambert wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we never said that

as much as I question why someone would trust a free "forever" offer, I have a lot more questions about a company that is denying what's in the public record.

go ahead and ask the questions i will answer
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