one thing that I like about crypto is that this never has to happen to dapp devs. by default, users pay for their own compute _as they use it_ so devs never have to worry about scaling beyond what they can pay for

one thing that I like about crypto is that this never has to happen to dapp devs. by default, users pay for their own compute _as they use it_ so devs never have to worry about scaling beyond what they can pay for

https://twitter.com/zemotion/status/1798558292681343039

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isn’t the OP paying for compute as they use it? seems like from Vercel’s perspective they’re just using a lot of compute

(for the record I am heavily sketched out by Vercel and their impact on the React ecosystem, and have never tried it. probably missing something here)

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so in this case OP is an app dev, right? if they’d deployed a smart contract, their -users- would be paying the compute costs as they use it rather than OP paying for everything.

(this is an imperfect analogy since smart contracts typically still need centralized components:

(this is an imperfect analogy since smart contracts typically still need centralized components: https://twitter.com/patagucci_girl/status/1799105207093342325

yep, exactly! I’m glad my explanation made sense; your summary is more direct :)

ahhh yeah thanks for explaining. I get it now –you weren't talking about a la carte pricing, you were talking about users paying directly vs. SaaS models

agree that for many blockchain projects, many people end up using SaaS type solutions like Infura or Alchemy anyways...