Then maybe that’s why this service is shutting down? It was supposed to be a loss-leader, hooking people with a free tier. But now instead of getting more people to sign up and convert to paying customers, it’s just a drain?
This redis add-on was the original one, developed by Heroku and then spun out and handed over to a different team to operate. It’s been running successfully for something like 12 years. Has been acquired/changed owner 3 times. Has withstood the numerous challenges from competitors in what is arguably one of the most competitive parts of the add-on ecosystem.
It has been successful and had its time. To suggest this has anything to do with it having a free tier is to not understand the trajectory of the business at all.
It has been successful and had its time. To suggest this has anything to do with it having a free tier is to not understand the trajectory of the business at all.