Surprise, Pay $1000

Posted by apike 7 hours ago

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Comment by rcleveng 49 minutes 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.

Comment by arjie 21 minutes ago

Ah, too risky to try for small operators. Good to know. Thanks for the fair warning.

Comment by datadrivenangel 48 minutes ago

Sounds like a business partner who will squeeze you again later

Comment by dd8601fn 1 hour ago

That sounds sketchy AF.

Comment by scared_together 2 hours ago

How exactly would BlackSmith enforce the overdue payment? By sending the user to court?

Comment by tadfisher 1 hour ago

Unlikely. But it is likely they will need to pay before resuming usage as a paying customer.

Comment by nailer 1 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.

Comment by garbagewoman 27 minutes ago

Give the growth hackers the benefit of the doubt, you reckon?

Comment by readthenotes1 50 minutes ago

Or: they know exactly how to handle free trials

Comment by vee-kay 44 minutes ago

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