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		brhsagain on Nov 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shu... This has to be the analog of "the first amendment only protects you from government restrictions on speech" in this conversation.

slang800 on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

Heroku can protect itself from abuse of its free tier by changing the rules - which they eventually did.

I'm sure that the only reason why they kept the free tier as long as they did was because it brought in enough users (who were eventually converted into paying customers) to be worth the cost.

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