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I am really active on Twitter and saw loads of people complain about terrible APIs offered by some tools and the ridiculous pricing of others. + I…",{"value":59,"source":53,"evidence":60},"Indie hackers, solopreneurs and SaaS builders",[61],{"id":62},"post",{"value":64,"source":53,"evidence":65},"Free tier with unlimited emails and paid plans; custom domains require a subscription",[66,69],{"id":67,"by":11,"text":68},"32230546","I get what you mean by this! Let me clarify what my way of thought is behind the \"completely free, no strings attached\". I do not ask for your credit card info, I don't put you…",{"id":70,"by":11,"text":71},"32230487","At scale this should work fine. Some parts of the dashboard are not yet prepared for that amount of data to flow in though, may be hard to navigate and monitor. 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