Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
by numpad0 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @04:05AM
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Yes, and I believe the model is as follows:
- infra costs sustainably decreases, exponentially;
- user signups almost-sustainably increases, exponentially;
- OpEx may increase, linearly;
- therefore, profit and scale almost-sustainably continues explosion to a rather enormous scale, landing founders with astronomical wealth.
- and this, by the way, is why charging users for actual costs is pointless. Harmful even! We’re offering values, not collecting fees. We’re going for the moon! Forget about gases for cars, we can pay out of the pocket. That’s irrelevant.
This actually worked for decades, hence the free tier. And the first two bullet points stopped working last midnight. And now Houston is working on a solution.
- infra costs sustainably decreases, exponentially;
- user signups almost-sustainably increases, exponentially;
- OpEx may increase, linearly;
- therefore, profit and scale almost-sustainably continues explosion to a rather enormous scale, landing founders with astronomical wealth.
- and this, by the way, is why charging users for actual costs is pointless. Harmful even! We’re offering values, not collecting fees. We’re going for the moon! Forget about gases for cars, we can pay out of the pocket. That’s irrelevant.
This actually worked for decades, hence the free tier. And the first two bullet points stopped working last midnight. And now Houston is working on a solution.