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479 points plam503711 | 1 comments | 16 May 25 12:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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balls187 ◴[16 May 25 12:42 UTC] No.44004753[source]▶
As CTO, I feel pretty strongly about this type of behavior and lie the blame squarely on the Aerospace Co’s CTO.

Being scrappy early on is part of the job, but when you are starting to generate revenue it’s time to convert your free tiers to starter tiers as you scale.

I’m sorry that there are people in our industry who choose to behave this way.

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eb0la ◴[16 May 25 13:05 UTC] No.44005009[source]▶
I agree 120% with you... ... but I am wondering about how good you are using free tiers. IMHO the free tier in cloud/saas just offsets the initial costs of using the cloud/saas. So... unless you're really small free tiers won't work for you.
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1. balls187 ◴[16 May 25 20:42 UTC] No.44009649[source]▶
They’re deffo helpful when building PoC’s and building MVP’s.

Once you get traction converting off free/basic tiers should be a no brainer.

We were on AWS Free Tier and once we hit market adoption, our costs were fully covered by paying customers (and then some…)