"But I can’t pay them $2000 a day and $672,000 a year for the exact same product that I was getting for free back in March!" Another in a long, long list of cu

"But I can’t pay them $2000 a day and $672,000 a year for the exact same product that I was getting for free back in March!" Another in a long, long list of customers whose plans fall apart when a free or one-price-for-life service realizes it cannot continue with business as usual. Today's pro tip: Do not build your livelihood around a third-party's free service. Eventually that service will either 1.) shut down, 2.) kick you out of their ecosystem, or 3.) start charging you. I'm not sure what is more surprising: that people continue to build businesses with these Achilles heels or that they seem shocked when the third-party changes the game.