Re:PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
by samlambert on Friday October 31, 2025 @12:37AM
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Don't pretend you were doing anything but trolling with a comment like "Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers..." if you liked the company or product so much why would you take shots like that? if you had emailed me at any point and told me you had done this stuff i would have just given you a load of free credits. i do it all the time.
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> if you liked the company or product so much why would you take shots like that?
Key word here is "liked". Seems like OP liked the company when it had a free tier, and no longer does after it axed the tier. They don't owe your company anything, in the same way your company doesn't owe anything to the non-paying "customers" it stopped subsidising. No foul play by either party. I wouldn't take it too personally.
Jesus dude,just say it was a mistake to call it free forever. How can you be a founder or whatever, have a product and not expect people to judge the words your website had, or the words you say? You should know it comes with the territory.
Doesn't matter how hard you guys worked to be profitable, it's about building trust and relationship with your audience.