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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases

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231 points ryanvogel | 2 comments | 30 Oct 25 15:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.453s | 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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RagnarD ◴[31 Oct 25 12:01 UTC] No.45771072[source]▶
I'm pretty disinclined to ever use PlanetScale when the CEO is here either ignorant of what his company actually said, or actively gaslighting people.
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1. AYBABTME ◴[31 Oct 25 15:52 UTC] No.45773471[source]▶
I mean, can you picture some marketing copy somewhere on a website saying something you didn't remember?

It's not hard to imagine that not every word ever written about a product tier was remembered by the CEO.

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2. deaux ◴[31 Oct 25 19:49 UTC] No.45775979[source]▶
What are you even saying?

This is the bloody pricing page. If I as the CEO of a SaaS startup don't even know what our pricing page says I should step down. That's our offer, that's the most important page we have. Come on now. Writing "free forever" isn't something some rogue marketing intern does, this is a core positioning decision and something you'd absolutely be part of, if not leading, as the founder.