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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.381s | source
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andreybaskov ◴[31 Oct 25 02:21 UTC] No.45767664[source]▶
I'm surprised so many replies here are about removing a free tier 2 years ago. Things cost money, what did you expect? Whenever I get free products that cost money I expect it's either temporary, or I'm being the product myself.
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andrenotgiant ◴[31 Oct 25 02:46 UTC] No.45767789[source]▶
didn't help that they called it "Free forever" before taking it away. Lesson learned
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andreybaskov ◴[31 Oct 25 03:10 UTC] No.45767937[source]▶
understandable, but again, "forever" as in heat death of the universe? Sadly there is no such thing as forever either.
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arthurcolle ◴[31 Oct 25 04:17 UTC] No.45768386[source]▶
Then call it something else
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samlambert ◴[31 Oct 25 05:28 UTC] No.45768705[source]▶
we did. we called it the Hobby plan. we never said forever.
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eskibars ◴[31 Oct 25 06:13 UTC] No.45768910[source]▶
https://web.archive.org/web/20240124013352/https://planetsca...

Says "free forever"

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1. zzmbnp ◴[31 Oct 25 06:15 UTC] No.45768923[source]▶
"Hobby Free forever for hobby use"

Wow. The guy is a jerk and a liar. The board at PlanetScale needs to get this guy off the internet. He's too much of an asshole to be seen in public.

I have no real horse in this race. I know how to manage my own databases, but I do have people asking me about PlanetScale and asking me to use it for certain projects, and I will absolutely never do so now.