[ocdtrekkie]

People need to realize that free plans are a loss leader/sales feature, not a guarantee. The longer you're able to use their free plan, the more obvious it is that you aren't going to convert to a paid user. The better the free plan, the less likely it is to make sense to run long term.

The only free tier product I use is Cloudflare's, and if it goes away someday, I'll pay for it.

[Kye]

Glitch's free plan is pretty much useless for everyone except the intended audience: new programmers looking to get help from the community (there's a button) and experienced programmers looking to provide that help. It has tiny resource limits. $8/month lifts some of the limits for all your projects and gives you five "boosted" projects with more memory and storage.

People who've been around a bit will recognize its previous name: Fog Creek Software.

[kopochameleon]

Many are new students who don't think about the business landscape of the service they choose to build something on.

Students who are learning to build things on these platforms shouldn't lose their early work.

[ocdtrekkie]

Sure, but move it elsewhere later. And who doesn't keep a copy of the code they deploy?

[blep_]

> Students who are learning to build things on these platforms

... and have not yet learned about version control or backups the hard way.

[adesanmi]

It’s a good thing those students have access to thousands of dollars of free credit for AWS/Digital Ocean/Azure, etc.

Not to mention if whatever they are working does take off, those companies would throw extra credits to these students.

I think they’ll be fine.

[ocdtrekkie]

Well, then it's excellent they are learning this now and not later. The best time to learn about making backups is when you start programming, the second best time is today.

[chris_wot]

Then they need to learn!