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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything

606 points · 302 comments · elffjs

  1. baxtr · · focus · HN ↗
    I am a little bit surprised by the lack of depth in discussing such a major product change.

    I get it, the problem is definitely worth solving for. Waking up with a $100k bill isn’t great.

    At the same time, from a product perspective the proposed solution might be a bad idea. Simply having hard caps as default will definitely turn out to be as bad for some people as a $100k bill, see for example (1).

    You can’t come up with good product changes if you don’t discuss the potential negative effects of a change.

    (1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49950196">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49950196

    1. CJefferson · · focus · HN ↗
      You could set the hard cap to a billion dollars. Everyone has a different hard cap — every company and person has an amount they simply couldn’t pay. This is just asking you to decide what that is and write it down.
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