PlanetScale's 2024 decisions alienated its core developer community. The company killed its free tier (5GB storage, 1B row reads/month) without offering alternatives, forcing hobby users to competitors. In early 2024, PlanetScale announced it would stop actively maintaining the open-source Vitess project, complicating its CNCF status. The company later pivoted to adding Postgres support in 2025 with a $5/month single-node option to win back developers, acknowledging the damage from abruptly removing free access.
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PlanetScale laid off sales and marketing staff in early 2024 with what critics called "the most callous layoff notice ever." CEO Sam Lambert's statement of "extreme gratitude" for laid-off workers was described as "tone deaf." The company simultaneously killed its free Hobby tier in April 2024, which was described as "a community earthquake" that made developers "feel betrayed." PlanetScale also announced it would no longer actively maintain the open-source Vitess project, pushing community maintainers to take over.
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PlanetScale — Worker Treatment: OPPOSED PlanetScale laid off sales and marketing staff in early 2024 with what critics called "the most callous layoff notice ever." CEO Sam Lambert's statement of "extreme gratitude" f… https://reciepts.tech/stance/1706