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There's a small Polish startup that helps people find nearest pharmacies with given drugs.

They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month and they would have to pay additional $5000 for Google Maps alone (right now GM costs them nothing).

Looks like GM will be ~10x more expensive to them than Mapbox or MapTiler, here's the original article (in Polish) translated by Google (sic!):

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev...

Looks like many folks who leeched on GM's free plan will move to alternatives so maybe this dick move will turn around and became actually a good thing, would love to see more competition in the area and right now Google Maps is years ahead of competition: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat




Wow, people really do just read headlines nowadays...


This thread is precisely about that company


It's a good TL;DR of the article but I'm not sure it's intentional :)


> They did pretty nice analysis and found out their whole infrastructure costs $1300 a month...

How much of that $1300 is based on getting some freebies or low pices by staying below some usage threshold? Will they come upon additional costs on other services as they scale up?


Pretty sure you linked to the same article that we're discussing here.




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