31–40 of 53 posts
"Removing sales and marketing" - That seems like an interesting decision unless those positions only existed to grow the free hobby tier.
Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.
"Removing sales and marketing" - That seems like an interesting decision unless those positions only existed to grow the free hobby tier.
Yea this seems like a gift for https://neon.tech/ , https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/ . Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.
This seems like a smart move. I know some will be frustrated with losing a free tier. But ultimately businesses need to make money and charging for it is part of that.
> ultimately businesses need to make money and charging for it is part of that. This is a mentality shift from the investor side. You would be shot down if you said we're focusing on profits/revenue rather than growth from 2010 to 2021. Now it's shifted from growth to profitability. A bunch of companies were burning money rather than making it for a decade.
This seems like a smart move. I know some will be frustrated with losing a free tier. But ultimately businesses need to make money and charging for it is part of that.
With killing free tier I wonder if it just was not generating a good conversion to paid users or is it killing a golden goose to get one time customer injection from folks choosing to move to paid tier
I wonder if this change signals it is "Database for Large amount of Data" is what drives most of business. Companies who have 10TB+ database size, where Sharding is of real value will not think twice about paying $40 to do initial testing on paid account.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea this seems like a gift for https://neon.tech/ , https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/ . Planetscale is definitely popular and they get a lot of free advertisement from tech influencers (may change without the free tier) but most people I know in enterprise haven't heard of it.
When is a gift not a gift?
For those that don’t have experience running companies with permissive free tiers, free tiers often act as a honeypot for a certain category of users that (1) don’t and will never pay for your product, (2) complain loudly and often and (3) eat up your support time.
This category of user is equally toxic to any competitor’s platform. The best B2B companies paywall early and set the bar high.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t fall out with the change at all, but being given 1 month to migrate doesn’t seem well thought out, there will definitely be some avoidable negative sentiment related to that. These are potential paying users not freeloaders to evict.
This is the only real problem I have with how they handled the situation. But it's a big problem. Whether or not these folks on free plans are ever going to convert to paid, they trusted PlanetScale to serve as a critical building block for their project/business. I think the least they could do is ease the transition by offering them a reasonable amount of time to offboard. I personally would never trust critical in…
For those looking for alternatives check out https://neon.tech/ , https://turso.tech/ and https://developers.cloudflare.com/d1/ .