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You wanna know the secret to significantly raising API rates without complaints? You raise rates to a ridiculous number, drag out negotiations with devs and le
by asciimov 3y ago
You wanna know the secret to significantly raising API rates without complaints?
You raise rates to a ridiculous number, drag out negotiations with devs and let them drop the news to their users, wait a bit for the revolts and news stories to happen, then make a press release saying "our bad, we love you guys so much, we 'found' a way to get our API prices down".
After all of that, API prices are still higher than reasonable, but all the users and devs are all happy and news stories go out saying how the users and devs won and got a better deal. All while you got the price increases that you wanted.
- say_it_as_it_is 3y agoanchoring is not a secret
- Freedom2 3y agoAnchoring can also be used in other applications than just raising API costs - GP should revisit how they unequivocally declare their statements.
- Brendinooo 3y agoHonestly, I'd take this, because I think the far more likely scenario is that they just ignore all of this brouhaha and aren't seriously impacted as a result.
- DamnInteresting 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
- shostack 3y agoAnd Reddit has done similar things before. This is cost of business to them.