For a weekend/side project that needs db and storage, why would I spend days correctly setting up, securing, and provisioning all my infra when I could just pay a little extra and never worry about it?
When creating a new project I wear all hats. Project management, UX/UI designing, Frontend, Backend, Infra, User testing, security.
Having to maintain multiple projects that all bring income in as a solo developer wearing all the hats is very time consuming, this is an absolute godsend and I'll pay for the DX happily.
But also I just started a side project with Rails. I got a CI/CD production environment with GitHub Actions, Postgres, Redis, sidekiq, and storage on Fly.io in an hour or two.
The thing that makes me more comfortable here is that none of my application code references Fly.io at all. If the project needs to grow beyond Fly I just change some environment variables and migrate the data.
No serious company is ever going to use these criminally expensive software, so it's quite clear what their target market is. Unfortunately, they have such a strong hold of the Twitter and Youtube space with their army of cringey influencers.
This company does nothing but a disservice to the next generation of web developers. Really a shame.