>future hires need to start somewhere, need to be able to learn on their own, and need to do so safely.

I've shared this before on hn, but I was about to bite the bullet on a fire base subscription to back a web app I'm building. Google announced its cancellation the week I was going to subscribe, I was hitting daily limits in my testing with my garage code and wanted the extra buffer to speed up my progress. As soon as they announced the cancellation I ripped out fire base and have been working on a swap to hasura/postgres/auth0. I can't afford, likely multiple, hundred or thousand dollar mistakes for a hobby.

"Just code better"

I'm trying...