It depends on the nature of the dependency being taken. (Startups are roughly in the same bucket. As is Google X where X is less than 5 yo) If you are a pingd

It depends on the nature of the dependency being taken. (Startups are roughly in the same bucket. As is Google X where X is less than 5 yo) If you are a pingdom clone then sure! I will easily be able to move to another pingdom clone. If you send my emails, I can move too bit with a bit more pain and maybe some spam reputation issues. If you organise all my teams work that is more of a headache to move off of. If you provide a very specific breeof cloud platform, like a Firebase clone, and I am coded up to the eyeballs with a tight coupling to your api, I would be way more wary. If you go down so do I for quite some time. But if your cloud is just a faster PostgreSQL then maybe that is not so bad.