Its interesting the contrast between HN and X [0] as far as the sentiment goes on this change. On HN seems mainly in favor of this change while on X everyone is mainly against it.
Personally, I'm glad I haven't built something on PS Hobby that I have to migrate but I do think its fair to charge for your product.
[0] https://twitter.com/PlanetScale/status/1765438197981708684
Does that just make this an echo chamber?
I wonder if this change signals it is "Database for Large amount of Data" is what drives most of business. Companies who have 10TB+ database size, where Sharding is of real value will not think twice about paying $40 to do initial testing on paid account.
As a user of the free tier, the short deadline has really soured my view of the company - I would have transitioned to a paid tier sometime down the line, but that’s not going to happen now. It’s fine if they don’t want to focus on me as a customer. But the tech world is small, I might end up being a decision maker in a tech company with a vldb requirement, is my opinion of planetscale going to be bias because of this now - absolutely.
But either way who cares about the long term if you’re just making yourself pretty in the shop window?