Why would a company squeeze customers after making them dependendent? Never heard of it.

Also what was capitalism again?

the reason we make sure all our products are gross margin positive is so this doesn't have to happen.

Your $5 plan may be gross margin positive but incentives are to push users into higher margin plans and from this pov this new plan looks much like your previous free plan which was rug pulled. Offering a free service to buy users then imposing migration costs on these users when you rug pull damaged your reputation. Next time perhaps grandfather existing users instead. If you want this new plan to be taken seriously update your terms to promise you will not rug pull again.

Do you intend to sell to people with one brain half or how should I interpret this argument?

This is a lazy response.

You currently make a small profit on cheaper tiers. Things change

Compute, storage, and network throughput are only getting cheaper over time. Assuming all other costs hold steady, it should only get more profitable.

A bit of unsolicited advice:

This post is the first time I've heard of your company and your blog post interested me.

When proprietors go to the mat in the comment section, I immediately lose any interest in patronizing them.

I know comments section drama is fun, but I'm not seeing it here and it feels like you're trying to create it from scratch.

I think it's great evening entertainment. Keep fanning the flames while I go make some popcorn!

Sam is a great twitter follow

thank you

Off-topic, but you have a typo on your pricing page: "high-availablity"

why is it going to the mat? i had to correct something that was untrue. 1.5 years is not very recently.

1.5 years ago is recently IMO.

Case in point. Potential customers will see this dismissal as the equivalent of how long they expect this pricing to remain. You’re free to increase the price in a year and when customers are irked, “why isn’t it $5 anymore?” They’ll be met with “that’s not recent.” “That was so long ago”

If you want to rebuild reputation with hobby tier, you’ll probably want to put in a 3 year pricing guarantee, not 1 month like the notice last time.

He's responding in good faith to people expressing doubt that they will maintain this pricing tier, and is responding to rebuttals. Whether you agree with his point of view is different.

Your loss, Planetscale is an amazing product.