rclevengan hour ago
WoW. That's certainly a surprise to me. I'd never expect an invoice after not putting in a card.
I also believe this is totally just a case of "billing and metering is hard, and may actually be a larger engineering effort than your actual service".
I was just looking at them earlier today since our Github actions are slow AF, and while they sounds great, this tells me it'll cost me more time to make sure I babysit it than most other trials.
With most of these, they end, the service stops working, and you have a choice to make: (a) it was worth it sign up, (b) not worth it revert.
kylegalbraith4 minutes ago
Founder of Depot [0] here. Feel free to try us out. We have a real free trial that is time based that doesn’t do odd things like this. Also have usage limits that you can put in place to further clamp down on runaway surprises.
arjie26 minutes ago
Ah, too risky to try for small operators. Good to know. Thanks for the fair warning.
datadrivenangelan hour ago
Sounds like a business partner who will squeeze you again later
dd8601fn2 hours ago
That sounds sketchy AF.
scared_together2 hours ago
How exactly would BlackSmith enforce the overdue payment? By sending the user to court?
tadfisheran hour ago
Unlikely. But it is likely they will need to pay before resuming usage as a paying customer.
naileran hour ago
Blacksmith are wrong, but also they’re a YC company- they may be young founders that haven’t run a SaaS before and genuinely don’t know how to handle free trials.
garbagewoman32 minutes ago
Give the growth hackers the benefit of the doubt, you reckon?
readthenotes1an hour ago
Or: they know exactly how to handle free trials
vee-kayan hour ago
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