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> we’ve surpassed 2 million developers ... 100,000+ developers who sign up for Render every month

There's something like 2 million software engineers in the entire USA. There's no way their penetration is significant (>25%) in the USA, so where are these developers coming in from? India, China, LATAM?

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I for one am German (and deploying using the free tier, which probably inflates the number). I can easily imagine the free tier being more popular im lower-income countries, there are a bunch of stories about indians being especially savy about free offerings.

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