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You're really going to run into trouble with the "no credit card required" thing - people are going to use your service to, at worst, spam and abuse other peopl
by d3nj4l 4y ago
You're really going to run into trouble with the "no credit card required" thing - people are going to use your service to, at worst, spam and abuse other people and, at best, mine crypto.
- colinchartier 4y agoWebapp.io's money making part (which facilitates this) is a DevOps company (CI/CD, preview environments, etc) which is already hammered with that sort of thing - see this post (from when we were called LayerCI) discussed by TravisCI for context: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-10-20-mining https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-10-20-mining
- resonious 4y agoBut this article says the solution was to require credit card for free use. The parent comment is noting that these guys are not doing that.
- Kiro 4y ago"These guys" are the same guys.
- Tostino 4y agoSo I think the question is: "what changed from your prior analysis?"
- sangnoir 4y ago[I am not parent poster] A new product launched. Abuse can be ignored in initial stages (indeed, it can be useful as a stress test and for boosting user numbers). Crypto miners and spammers become a problem when they are crowding out legit customers, at which point they'll be pruned, and new signups will require credit cards.
- mouse_ 4y agoSo what you're saying is, the first hit is free?