alt Hacker NewsIt’s exhausting enough to deal with services that change around on an annual/semi-annual basis with pricing and expectations.
Now the expectation is that we should tolerate goalposts being shuffled around on a weekly/daily basis with the added requirement of digging into bug tickets because there’s no attempt at transparency? The tech is cool but this is absolutely insane.
If you’re an individual developer paying $100-200/mo for a service that keeps changing, there is a LOT of reason to keep an eye on other products.
I’m not saying that there isn’t a reason to keep an eye on other products. I’m saying that every other product in the space has the same unit economics and will eventually need to charge enough to be profitable - and to continue training and hardware expansion.
Honestly a developer paying $200 a month is a nothingburger and if using their service to the fullest is losing them money.
For context, the company I work for gives each consultant a $2000 a month allowance and I think there are probably around 500-700 people with that allowance. I’m sure everyone doesn’t use it all.
If they have limited hardware resources, where do you think they are going to focus?