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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 4 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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reducesuffering ◴[30 Oct 25 21:02 UTC] No.45765316[source]▶
I like PlanetScale, but they already have precedent very recently for having a free-tier and then cancelling it for a minimum of $40/month plan, which made many people switch. What's to stop them from doing the same here?

Be wary of building a cheap hobby project on it expecting pricing to stay consistent. If $40+ isn't feasible for you, you may be trying to switch off to a hosted PostgreSQL option, with all the pain MySQL->Postgres entails, soon.

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samlambert ◴[30 Oct 25 21:05 UTC] No.45765347[source]▶
Why would we? we make a (small) profit on these cheaper tiers. We are a sustainable and profitable company. Also the free tier wasnt cancelled very recently it was 1.5 years ago so you are reaching a bit here.
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1. randomNumber7 ◴[30 Oct 25 21:15 UTC] No.45765462[source]▶
Why would a company squeeze customers after making them dependendent? Never heard of it.

Also what was capitalism again?

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2. samlambert ◴[30 Oct 25 21:18 UTC] No.45765497[source]▶
the reason we make sure all our products are gross margin positive is so this doesn't have to happen.
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3. debo_ ◴[30 Oct 25 21:43 UTC] No.45765733[source]▶
This is a lazy response.
4. czl ◴[30 Oct 25 22:34 UTC] No.45766193[source]▶
Your $5 plan may be gross margin positive but incentives are to push users into higher margin plans and from this pov this new plan looks much like your previous free plan which was rug pulled. Offering a free service to buy users then imposing migration costs on these users when you rug pull damaged your reputation. Next time perhaps grandfather existing users instead. If you want this new plan to be taken seriously update your terms to promise you will not rug pull again.