Wow, people really do just read headlines nowadays...
Re:Farewell, Google Maps
by edgarvaldes on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:38PM
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This thread is precisely about that company
It's a good TL;DR of the article but I'm not sure it's intentional :)
> They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month...
How much of that $1300 is based on getting some freebies or low pices by staying below some usage threshold? Will they come upon additional costs on other services as they scale up?
They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month and they would have to pay additional $5000 for Google Maps alone (right now GM costs them nothing).
Looks like GM will be ~10x more expensive to them than Mapbox or MapTiler, here's the original article (in Polish) translated by Google (sic!):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...
Looks like many folks who leeched on GM's free plan will move to alternatives so maybe this dick move will turn around and became actually a good thing, would love to see more competition in the area and right now Google Maps is years ahead of competition: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat