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Well, to be honest, compute is becoming a commodity very quickly. We offer 100,000 invocations free and offer 50,000 per $1 [1] with a paid account. There are some pretty smart people who have talked at length about startups historically underpricing, but I think we're making a bet on the raw value of compute trending to zero. (This is a weird thing to say outright, our goal, generally, is to change the way people think about service composition and building things on the internet.)

Twilio is interesting because they're offering this as a business-specific offering i.e., integrate with Twilio directly (SMS, voice), which on its face is actually more valuable than, say, a "generalized compute platform" (which we've referred to ourselves as, at times). I think it'll be really interesting to see how Twilio markets + plays with this model --- theoretically if it sells their other services they could get away with this being a loss-leader, which is an intriguing concept.

[1] https://stdlib.com/pricing/




> I think we're making a bet on the raw value of compute trending to zero.

I'm thinking you mean the COST of compute here. If that's the case, I actually disagree on cost trend direction. I think the raw cost of compute will slowly increase. Long story but most of it borders on the economics of cloud computing.




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