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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.674s | source
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outlore ◴[31 Oct 25 00:57 UTC] No.45767243[source]▶
Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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1. impulser_ ◴[31 Oct 25 01:42 UTC] No.45767469[source]▶
Yeah, and they became an actual profitable tech company which is extremely rare today.
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2. rajatkulk ◴[31 Oct 25 11:03 UTC] No.45770674[source]▶
Um well, they shouldn't have done that. "If it means they go broke and need to shut down for me to keep having my free tier DB for 3 tables and 2 users, so be it, go broke"
3. bigyabai ◴[31 Oct 25 15:45 UTC] No.45773364[source]▶
Wanna say I heard someone defend Oracle with this line of logic, a while ago.