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Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay"

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79 points AnhTho_FR | 3 comments | 01 Apr 25 11:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.648s | source
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leejoramo ◴[01 Apr 25 11:32 UTC] No.43545508[source]▶
The first time I remember seeing a “no use, no pay” plan was with the ProVUE’s Panorama X excellent database application for macOS.

https://provue.com/

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1. FinnLobsien ◴[01 Apr 25 11:35 UTC] No.43545536[source]▶
oh this is interesting because I feel like it wouldn't work with infra as that runs in the background and you almost never have zero usage on a DB.
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2. godman_8 ◴[01 Apr 25 16:55 UTC] No.43549009[source]▶
IaaS is mostly like this already. There are some things where it’s not used like VMs which serverless tries to solve. Additionally people tend to waste tons of resources with IaaS because they don’t scale on usage.
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3. FinnLobsien ◴[02 Apr 25 08:02 UTC] No.43554564[source]▶
Yeah that's exactly what I thought: Infra is usually more usage based