[throwawayian]

I look at the egress costs to internet and it doesn’t check out. It’s a premium product dependent on DX, marketed to funded startups.

But if I care about ingress and egress costs, which many stream heavy infrastructure providers do.. This doesn’t add up.

I wish them luck, but I feel they would have had a much better chance from the start by getting some funding and having a loss leader start, then organising and passing on wholesale rates from cloud providers once they’d reached critical mass.

Instead they’re going in at retail which is very spicy. I feel like someone will clone the tech and let you self host, before big players copy it natively.

It’s a commodity space and they’re starting with a moat of a very busy 2 weeks from some Staff engineers at AWS.

[shikhar]

(Founder) Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We are early and figuring things out. I agree egress cost is going to be a big concern. We want to do the best we can for users as we unlock some scale. During preview, we are focused on getting feedback so the service is free (we will need to talk if the usage is significant though).