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Re:My product died because it got way too many users – here'... by skunkworker on Sunday June 16, 2019 @04:56PM (#20197838)
The “how” of the title is how they got so many users, not how it died from so many users. For that here’s the post mortem

https://giki.wiki/@nubela/Kloudsec/Post-Mortem

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Re:My product died because it got way too many users – here'... by robertbalent on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:22PM (#20197975)
> With around 2000 websites live, we were paying 10,000 USD/mo in server fees.

Isn’t it quite high?

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Re:My product died because it got way too many users – here'... by hotdox on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:55AM (#20201658)
How can be this user flagged. He posts 8 submissions during 11 days for his personal blog. I see this as shameless self-promotion. Correct me If I wrong in my valuation.
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Re:My product died because it got way too many users – here'... by ganeshkrishnan on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:07PM (#20197900)
Tldr: over dosed on free server from IBM

You should have calculated the overhead per user and then created a pricing strategy based on that

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Re:My product died because it got way too many users – here'... by brighter2morrow on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:38PM (#20198057)
Did they not have a business person at this company?
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