My product died because it got way too many users – here's how

[nubela]

https://nubela.co/blog/my-product-died-because-it-got-way-too-many-users-heres-how/

[skunkworker]

The “how” of the title is how they got so many users, not how it died from so many users. For that here’s the post mortem

https://giki.wiki/@nubela/Kloudsec/Post-Mortem

[robertbalent → skunkworker]

> With around 2000 websites live, we were paying 10,000 USD/mo in server fees.

Isn’t it quite high?

[hotdox]

How can be this user flagged. He posts 8 submissions during 11 days for his personal blog. I see this as shameless self-promotion. Correct me If I wrong in my valuation.

[ganeshkrishnan]

Tldr: over dosed on free server from IBM

You should have calculated the overhead per user and then created a pricing strategy based on that

[brighter2morrow → ganeshkrishnan]

Did they not have a business person at this company?