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I think this is actually an admirable example of why Firebase is a fantastic option for a startup. This company had made no optimisations for this and would have lost a rare opportunity for virality.

Would you pay 30k$ for 2million people to look at and try your site? I would for any business I was running. If your servers were on fire at the start of that, would you pay 30k to keep your servers up?




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