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by quickthrower2 1457 days ago
It depends on the nature of the dependency being taken.

(Startups are roughly in the same bucket. As is Google X where X is less than 5 yo)

If you are a pingdom clone then sure! I will easily be able to move to another pingdom clone.

If you send my emails, I can move too bit with a bit more pain and maybe some spam reputation issues.

If you organise all my teams work that is more of a headache to move off of.

If you provide a very specific breeof cloud platform, like a Firebase clone, and I am coded up to the eyeballs with a tight coupling to your api, I would be way more wary. If you go down so do I for quite some time.

But if your cloud is just a faster PostgreSQL then maybe that is not so bad.

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