Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by martin-adams 3794 days ago
The way I see it, I don't think I am subsidising these other startups since DO raised $83m last year [1]

Secondly, with the high attention of YC companies using the service, this may help push innovation forward for things like improved firewall and private networking, managed databases for backup and redundancy and an S3 comparable file store (thus no transfer costs).

If giving $250K to YC companies to create that demand for them to implement it, I'm all for it.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/08/digitalocean-raises-83m-ser...