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Comment by villgax | Hacker News Reader

Suggestion, /mon -> /mo or /month or per month

Number of API calls per month of 100K for $15 is just too low, you can have decent dedicated servers running per month for $5 & that could very well handle 86400*30 at 1 request per second.

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Pricing is done based on value added. You can't directly compare it to a bare VPS server because by itself that server isn't providing value because you have to actually set it up, maintain it, etc.

Wasn't questioning the amount, only the units for a plan which could make it more appealing

I know it might sound not so logical for you, but it's not how pricing works.

Wasn't questioning the amount, only the units for a plan which could make it more appealing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

I don't think this is a fair equivalence... But nonetheless I'm grateful you linked that! That's fascinating to read in hindsight.

Got any more of these? I love historical comments like this, from HN especially. It is really interesting (and entertaining) to see an idea being dismissed as trivial, knowing that it ends up becoming the core of a multibillion dollar company.

I suppose in the case of HN, I could probably use hn.algolia.com to find submissions of startups we now know to be highly successful.

This was the first time I really read BrandonM response (very polite). So thanks for posting it.

Thank you for your suggestion. We will think about it.

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