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by sixhobbits 1234 days ago
I like the idea but practically I wonder how it works out. I feel like I would have a double disincentive to use an alpha/beta connection as a) it might fail and b) it might hit GA and then suddenly my free workflow breaks?

Maybe I am thinking about it wrong and this is more aimed at people who were previously paying for something and now get the same thing for free.
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swyx 1234 days ago
i dont understand, why would it break when it goes from beta to GA?

and failures happen, anyone who promises you otherwise is lying. you'd have them yourself if you DIY. what helps is having good monitoring, a large open source community with strong first party support, and a good development/testing framework so most breakages can be fixed the same day they happen.

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sixhobbits 1234 days ago
Sorry I wasn't clear. I mean two personas

- a) maybe I don't care about 99% reliability and I am attracted by the fact that it's free. But I have no control over when it will stop being free, so I don't implement it.

- b) I have money to pay but I need reliability.

They pull in different directions but both seem to pull away from a free alpha version. I would imagine if you could offer them as alternatives you might get both personas but with this model you kind of lose both?

Again, I am sure this is a hole in my understanding, not the model. Just curious as to where it is.

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jeanlaf 1233 days ago
Hi! Here's how we think about it. Given the economical context, I would say pricing becomes a strong argument. It's also one of the reasons we built the program, it's a way for us to give back to the community.

Having more usage on our side will help us tremendously at bringing all those connectors to higher reliability standards as we're exposed to more and more use cases. We do believe most people will be willing to pay for reliability and will stay with us when those connectors will become GA. We will also give a grace period for them to switch if they want to (I guess Airbyte Open Source will be the best alternative then :) )

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hiddencost 1233 days ago
Previously it wasn't free, so you wouldn't ever have used it.
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