Thanks for the questioning. I'll do my best to answer. 1. How do you trust any startup is going to be around in the future? You can't know for sure, but someth

Thanks for the questioning. I'll do my best to answer. 1. How do you trust any startup is going to be around in the future? You can't know for sure, but something about the product calls out to you. Luckily all our services are "source available" here https://github.com/micro https://github.com/micro. Meaning if the company ever went under, you could go ahead and reuse these. We'd obviously change the licensing as required. Otherwise, we're also happy to license this technology to anyone who wants to run it themselves. Its just not "open source" by the traditional measure. 2. Maybe you wouldn't, or maybe you would depending on what kind of IDs you want to generate and how inconvenient it is for you to do otherwise. Snowflake IDs aren't the easiest to create, they require backend clustered coordination and uniqueness. But alas pricing is an art so all of this will likely change over time and be made much cheaper as we get more feedback like this. 3. If someone is looking for full SQL, they should go spin up a managed SQL database, this isn't that. We see this as a super simple and convenient persistent data storage layer that might work really well for frontend or people who were otherwise big fans of mongodb for that simplicity. It's just our first shot at some sort of CRUD layer. 4. You're right, we should do better on this. Firstly we're not selling your data and we only store whats needed purely from a customer perspective. We offload a lot of credit card and transaction processing to stripe so don't store that directly either. The product is in beta, so no SLAs just yet. Everything else, we're just learning and evolving so hopefully with helpful prodding like this we can do better.