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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 5 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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Imustaskforhelp ◴[31 Oct 25 04:12 UTC] No.45768354[source]▶
If somebody built a service to try out planetscale or the fact that planetscale was constantly hyped around / sponsored some big names atleast in the youtube scale, I am pretty sure that some people went there thinking about the free forever and everything...

I do think it was a little bad move because now you can't even test planetscale and the memories of its free stuff still might haunt some people

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samlambert ◴[31 Oct 25 04:55 UTC] No.45768565[source]▶
Were we supposed to just keep it up until we go out of business or something? Out of sheer duty. Like burn everything we built to the ground to keep the free tier going as long as possible? Endlessly indentured to provide a free service on the internet for people that will never pay us money so that the people that do pay us money can eventually have to move provider too because we are shutting down?

I didn't enjoy doing it. I felt bad but I don't regret it at all.

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1. cess11 ◴[31 Oct 25 08:55 UTC] No.45769791[source]▶
Yes, that was the promise you made. You said 'besides our commercial offering we're going to support your personal projects you run out of passion, forever' and then you changed it to 'actually, we're going to delete your passion projects unless you pay us money'.

You should absolutely regret making that promise. As I understand it you're wrapping hardware at AWS and GCP, and likely have since the beginning, so you should absolutely have understood that this was a bad promise because it was dependent on recurring costs towards those suppliers that you did not have control over.

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2. encoderer ◴[31 Oct 25 16:32 UTC] No.45773912[source]▶
“you should absolutely have understood that this was a bad promise”

Absolutely wild to me that you talk to peers like children.

Nobody owes you anything. It’s all best effort.

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3. ksec ◴[01 Nov 25 05:44 UTC] No.45779499[source]▶
It is both strange, fascinating but also wired and scary to watch all of these unfold in real life. Not just on the internet.

In pre 2010 era, we all knew Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Storage was marketing and no one believes it. There is some sort of limit, and as long as we dont get caught it is fine. Free "forever" offering, Unlimited were all best effort. And It isn't just tech, but also politics. I mean they all say it but most wouldn't believe it.

And then we have a whole new generation of people who dont have this as norm anymore. They do believe everything should be free and could be free. Utopia is just around the corner. The cost of anything is so abstracted and muddled they have no idea why anything is priced as such.

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4. cess11 ◴[01 Nov 25 07:31 UTC] No.45779856[source]▶
Yeah, you should be very adult and say that when corporations come to you and remind you that they think you owe them something.
5. rkomorn ◴[01 Nov 25 07:35 UTC] No.45779873{3}[source]▶
Maybe the weird part was our generation getting obviously lied to by marketing and being like "this is fine"?

Maybe we shouldn't have been so accepting of long lists of asterisks/footnotes in ads or ToCs that invalidate much of the promotional material?