Comment by coatue
7 days ago
[Joe, Hydra cofounder] Hey there, I appreciate you taking the time to write this up - helps a lot to hear what's confusing.
One of the downsides of serverless is that it can be difficult to predict the overall monthly cost when the granularity of billing (per invocation, memory usage, or execution time) is complex. For developers this might be totally fine (even preferred), but we think that giving a single, predictable price: Hydra $100 / month is better for businesses to plan around.
Usage caps per plan are purely soft limits so users don't actually encounter them. Yes, we want people to upgrade to higher plans. In the words of Maya Angelou "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt" - meaning, we believe these are the best prices we can offer today to build a sustainable project on. That said, I appreciate your point about our # of users limit. If we removed that limit would you try out Hydra?
Hi Joe, much appreciate the response!
Resounding yes RE removal of user limits.
I would want people to have access, to play around with the tool but also to be able to share responsibility wrt to ops/ extension/ incident mgmt etc.
Ok, I'm down to run an experiment and remove the user limits on your account! DM me on X (@JoeSciarrino) or email founders@hydra so I know which account is yours.