“But when services shift from commodity to premium product, they introduce friction. Rent-seeking models pile on cost and scrutiny, which kills exploration before it starts.”

With crypto dev I feel like pain most acutely with indexing + RPC providers. I set up an indexer for a base sepolia project and just calling eth_getBlockByNumber constantly to support the indexer exceeds alchemy free plan and the next tier is 200 dollars.

The exploration is killed before it starts. I can’t afford to pay 200 a month just to host a dumb little app that I don’t yet know anyone will care about

“But when services shift from commodity to premium product, they introduce friction. Rent-seeking models pile on cost and scrutiny, which kills exploration before it starts.”

With crypto dev I feel like pain most acutely with indexing + RPC providers. I set up an indexer for a base sepolia project and just calling eth_getBlockByNumber constantly to support the indexer exceeds alchemy free plan and the next tier is 200 dollars.

The exploration is killed before it starts. I can’t afford to pay 200 a month just to host a dumb little app that I don’t yet know anyone will care about 

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1P3cnIP6DFP46ZPMDSDQbYar3e9i8fTrnjltw7a2V3Cs/mobilebasic