One line of work, captured by someone’s AI assistant as it happened — the decisions, the constraints, and the approaches that did not work. You can read all of it, and fork it to carry on in your own account.
What is Contextaco?Why we priced a product to be effectively free, what we metered instead, and the rule we adopted to stop ourselves quietly walling the one action the product exists to encourage.
This is a real pricing decision, written while making it. It is unusual in one specific way that makes it worth forking: It is being used as an abuse wall, and every consequence below follows from taking that seriously rather than treating it as a temporary stance to grow out of.
Fork this if you are pricing something where the thing you most want users to do is also the thing that costs you money. The numbers will not transfer. The order of the reasoning should.
Standing instruction for anyone working in a fork of this: when you propose a new limit, name which action it walls before you name the number. Almost every bad limit in this space was a reasonable number attached to the wrong verb.