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Around 130$ million yearly revenue? Matches RocketLab. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/rocket-lab-rev...
I think Rocket Lab is ~$130M quarterly, not annually. Isn't it?
And yeah:
> The company that developed and launched rockets in New Zealand and the United States, as well as spacecraft and software systems, made US$123 million revenue in the three months to the end of March.
I think the most depressing thing is how unsurprising this is. This is why free trials require credit cards upfront, as they're more difficult to fake, not because you're about to be stealth billed. It's thanks to people like this.
it's practically trivial to bypass this if you really want to. CapitalOne in the US allows you to have virtual cards that can be verified but you can delete and block at any time for free if you have a credit card from them. I'm sure the practice discourages casuals from gaming trials, but it just feels like it's making life miserable for paying customers but doing almost nothing to stop bad actors
[0] https://github.com/TirrenoTechnologies/tirreno
(creator of tirreno)
> We’re not going to waste days chasing them. But at some point, this goes beyond saving a few bucks: it becomes performance art. Oh for the love of tech, do chase them. This absolutely has to be in void of the terms of your trial take them to court. If not, then at the very least name and shame the company, so some dumb manager orchestrating this silly theft will get fired and someone more mature can be rotated in.
We’re not rushing into legal action — it’s not worth the energy for now — but publicly calling out the behavior felt necessary. It also sends a message to others in the ecosystem about the kind of nonsense OSS maintainers sometimes face.
And yes, while I’m still holding off on naming the company directly… I haven’t ruled it out.
You can easily prevent such trial abuse through the tirreno [0] platform, as freshly registered email accounts can be blocked almost in real time. [0] https://github.com/TirrenoTechnologies/tirreno (creator of tirreno)
> We’re not going to waste days chasing them. But at some point, this goes beyond saving a few bucks: it becomes performance art. Oh for the love of tech, do chase them. This absolutely has to be in void of the terms of your trial take them to court. If not, then at the very least name and shame the company, so some dumb manager orchestrating this silly theft will get fired and someone more mature can be rotated in.
Around 130$ million yearly revenue? Matches RocketLab. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/rocket-lab-rev...
You can easily prevent such trial abuse through the tirreno [0] platform, as freshly registered email accounts can be blocked almost in real time. [0] https://github.com/TirrenoTechnologies/tirreno (creator of tirreno)
^ creator of Tirreno