[manigandham]

How many products actually start getting traction? How many of those then need to scale beyond a single node? How many of those running on a $5/month plan will it take to make up for the dev and support costs?

I'm sure they can easily scale their plan down to the $50/month range with smaller instances but they're a business too and having a cost cut-off makes sense. The companies that need the scale will find them regardless, and they have the Citus Warp product as stated in the article to make migrations easy.

[sam0x17]

Basically copy the low-end lineup of https://www.elephantsql.com/ and then once you hit $99/month switch it over to sharding / whatever

[sam0x17]

If the masses use your product, the whales will follow