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

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

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.

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