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I was just setting up a new Fly account and launching a project yesterday. I will say their developer content marketing is very succesful and had me convinced they at least know what they are talking about.

Any more stories or knowledge of them being disingenous?

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I wouldn't say disingenuous but uptime has been disastrous.

I'm definitely not buying anything there.

I run a free service on fly.io.

It's been ok lately (or maybe my users just stopped complaining), so maybe they got better.

But it's free.

If the free juice they give you in the supermarket tastes bad, will you buy it?

We assume the free version to have similar quality to the paid one. It's in the vendor interest, so that we like it and become a paid customer. If they can't convince us of their quality in the free version, how are we supposed to trust the paid one?

Free can be the most expensive price of all.

Their DX is good. They just have a lot of reliability/availability issues.

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