Anyone abusing that free cluster, you boot over to a more constrained and throttled environment.

Appreciate the candor and thanks for the blog post. Clearly an environment like this is the future development.

Sure, I can try and sell a whole different tool to my team, or accept that they just want to get things done and keep using the current tool that works everywhere but on replit.

I get where you're coming from, and I might take your advice next time I have to do something frontend-related (which hopefully I won't), but also understand that this works fine on most other tools' free tiers. In fact it builds from scratch and publishes to GitHub pages in 50s in GitHub Actions.

I get where you're coming from; you just want free stuff. Understandable. But also understand that there are people who want to operate and support different kinds of businesses. For example, we might pay a few dollars a month for someone to host a git repo: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/

Offering service actually costs money, and it has to come from somewhere.

Anything that can run a "real workload" is these days going to be heavily targeted by buttcoin miners and other abuse. Any free trial is ripe for abuse, and it becomes a cat & mouse game to try to identify and stop them before they waste all your resources. Is that fight worth fighting for a small business? Probably not. Yeah, you might lose a stingy few potential would-be customers but that may cost less than the fight. I bet most of these small businesses will be happy to refund your $7 if you try their service, find out that it's not for you, and explain your situation nicely.

You really shouldn’t slag off people who are working hard to give you something for free. And if you are, at least get your facts straight.