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scoopdewooptoday at 2:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Man, its hard not to have a reaction to another BaaS. Every "pricing" page really goes to show that engineering took a backseat to rent-seeking.

There is an incentive to take advantage of users ignorance rather than instruct them. There is no incentive to make self-hosting easy or secure or sustainable.

This is literally $600/month for 250GB of storage with no SLA. Cool "value add" bro.


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nezajtoday at 2:58 PM

We’re 100% open source and have instructions for getting the server up and running via docker

We’re also working on a PR to make it even easier to deploy

https://github.com/instantdb/instant/pull/2495