A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to $1750 per month

Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by camus2 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:59AM (#14357257)

> Still cheaper for a single dev starting a startup to hook up to Firebase/AWS/Azure than hiring 'cheap' devs from Poland.

Yes but you gotta be smart here. It's not like Firebase is the only database out there. And once your product grows, and you hit Firebase limits which forces you in the "pay as you go" plan, whatever cheapness you thought you bought into quickly becomes a huge expanse.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by bolololo1 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @09:08AM (#14358018)

Of course it's not and I feel sorry for the author, but being smart doesn't mean that you know everything from dev to setting up servers. Most startups are just quickly glued up. What the author and team could do after they started growing is to start slowly moving to own infrastructure/backend. I'd advise any startup anyways to start with Saas and when money starts showing up then hire the remote guy to set up infrastucture.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by bradynapier on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @08:33AM (#14357763)

Precisely where we find ourselves and the inspiration for the article.

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