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Leaving Firebase for Postgres
Firestore charges $0.09 per 100,000 writes against $0.03 per 100,000 reads, and its query language caps OR conditions at 30 disjunctions. Here is what a relational migration actually costs, and when staying put is the better call.
When the internal tool outgrows Retool
Retool's pricing page lists Business at $50 per builder and $15 per internal user each month, and its docs put Git source control on the Enterprise plan only. Both limits bite when the admin panel becomes the operation.
Automation priced per task
Zapier bills one task per step and Make bills one credit per module action, so the automations that run most cost most. A million queue messages on Cloudflare cost $0.80 over the included million.
The plugin debt nobody budgets for
Patchstack counted 11,334 new WordPress vulnerabilities in 2025, 91% of them in plugins, and 46% had no patch on the day they went public. Forty plugins is forty vendors you are trusting with your uptime.
AI changed the build-versus-buy maths
Buying won because building was slow and uncertain. Webflow's step from $25/mo to a $2,500/mo Team plan, and METR's swing from a 19% AI slowdown to an 18% speedup, both landed in the same two years.
Migrating a live database without downtime
A no-code platform does not hand you a database. It hands you a CSV per table, emailed when the export finishes. Here is the four-stage pipeline that turns that into PostgreSQL without losing a relationship.
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