Finding this comment interesting, parent comment didn't suggest any past association but it seemingly uses project reference as pivot point to do various outgroup counter signaling / neg bun?
Have they committed to anything different than what Heroku had committed to?
We're Charlie Brown running towards the football repeatedly. We need to learn a lesson here. "We're the good platform devs" branding doesn't mean a company will do the kind thing by their true believer users (post-acquisition, post-cash-flow-belt-tightening, post-IPO, etc)
There ought to be a platform on which new coders can build a free simple web app in a playground, and know it will be accessible in 20 years. If a company wants to use "free easy backends" as bait for capturing growing companies' future costs, devs should hold them to long-term persistence and at least an off-platform future migration path. See also Parse, Geocities, etc
Use some % of the money and put it in to an OSS migration path or a fund to pay their own future AWS bills, c'mon.
From the title "Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here (github.com/appwrite)" was expecting the entirety of Appwrite to be a new project shown here for the first time. Could the title be changed to reflect what's new? Perhaps the title of the GitHub Issue being linked: "Announcing Appwrite 0.14 with 11 Cloud Function Runtimes!"
> unless [the exact scenario Naval is talking about]
Good example of "all or nothing thinking" here. "Toiling every day on the backs of humans for our every need" OR "Frighteningly advanced automation" — reality is higher fidelity than that.
We're already SO far towards the latter scenario (washing our clothes magically with the press of a button), painting it as a dichotomy only serves to highlight how out of touch with reality the immutable scarcity worldview is.
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