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Hi, Database Labs founder here. We indeed are very upfront and transparent -- no hidden costs, and no teaser free tier followed by a massive price jackup once y
by pjlegato 12y ago
Hi, Database Labs founder here. We indeed are very upfront and transparent -- no hidden costs, and no teaser free tier followed by a massive price jackup once you actually get any significant traction.
Free tiers also invite abuse by shady actors (spammers and so on) and tire-kickers who generate support load but don't ever actually buy anything, which we just don't have the resources to deal with yet, as a small company.
It seems so far that $10 is a reasonably low price point for trying it out that people are willing to give it a shot, and it filters out a lot of the bad actors.. maybe when we're larger, we'll revisit the free tier idea.
- hardwaresofton 12y agoYeah so I didn't mean that you should sell it for free, but the issue here is that I an easily rent a VPS (and I do) with better specs for cheaper and it's not super clear exactly what you're offering on top outside of "VPSes to run database x" on.