Ask HN: Any alternative to Ethereum that is cheaper or free for deploying Dapps?

Fundamentally, the economics of the main Ethereum chain are bad because you don't need your work replicated by thousands and thousands of nodes.

One reason why it took so long for blockchains to be discovered is that until Bitcoin if you tried to present a paper a distributed systems conference with a system that (by design) didn't increase workload capacity when you add more nodes it wouldn't be accepted. (It's easy enough to do that when you are trying to make a scalable system.)

Maybe "Waves" (wavesplatform.com) by using chrome lite client https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wavesliteapp/kfmca...

cheaper (1Waves) & easy to use

You won't get free, as thew transaction costs are a way to block spam.

What requirements do you have other than cheapness?