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There's a small Polish startup that helps people find nearest pharmacies with given drugs. They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructu
by b212 8y ago
There's a small Polish startup that helps people find nearest pharmacies with given drugs.
They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month and they would have to pay additional $5000 for Google Maps alone (right now GM costs them nothing).
Looks like GM will be ~10x more expensive to them than Mapbox or MapTiler, here's the original article (in Polish) translated by Google (sic!):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gdziepolek.pl%2Fblog%2Fpozegnanie-z-google-maps&edit-text= https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Looks like many folks who leeched on GM's free plan will move to alternatives so maybe this dick move will turn around and became actually a good thing, would love to see more competition in the area and right now Google Maps is years ahead of competition: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
- edgarvaldes 8y agoThis thread is precisely about that company
- tartrate 8y agoIt's a good TL;DR of the article but I'm not sure it's intentional :)
- hughes 8y agoPretty sure you linked to the same article that we're discussing here.
- pkaye 8y ago> They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month... How much of that $1300 is based on getting some freebies or low pices by staying below some usage threshold? Will they come upon additional costs on other services as they scale up?
- qwert-e 8y agoWow, people really do just read headlines nowadays...