The quota we needed increased far beyond the usual was the YouTube API. The star...

vrosas · 2026-02-01T00:55:05 1769907305

Interesting. I guess we’ve learned an important lesson in not building businesses around APIs that don’t have an SLA…

_drg9 · 2026-02-01T01:23:45 1769909025

That was just a feature of the product to be helpful. Not a core function at all.

MichaelZuo · 2026-02-01T14:24:47 1769955887

If you werent willing to pay for an SLA, and they clearly werent going to offer one to you… why is it surprising if literally no promises were made in writing?

Why would they intentionally lose money on your private commercial activity without even that?

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-03T02:57:07 1770087427

> werent willing to pay for an SLA

According to who?

> no promises were made in writing

Most big businesses won't promise anything. That doesn't make their actions reasonable.

> Why would they intentionally lose money

You made this up.

Also if they were losing money on some feature, they could change the quota for just that feature.

MichaelZuo · 2026-02-03T14:05:26 1770127526

Are you confused?

Clearly I was not asking for random role play on how another HN user may answer a direct question.

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-03T20:04:35 1770149075

I'm calling out your "questions" as containing a bunch of unsupported claims about the situation on top of weird assumptions about how things have to work. It was not an answer, and your questions as written don't deserve answers.

MichaelZuo · 2026-02-03T22:44:16 1770158656

How can your opinion even outweigh anyone else’s in the first place?

From what I can see there is no possible way your opinions could have some extra weight, above and beyond the median HN user.

(And in either case, you still seem confused for trying to initially hide behind some weird pretense reply)

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-03T23:13:23 1770160403

> opinion

It's not an opinion-based claim. Maybe I missed something that would make me incorrect, but whether you made up details that make OP look bad is a factual matter. It's true or it isn't.

Also I said nothing about my opinion "outweighing" anyone else. Where did you get that from?

> hide behind some weird pretense

I'm sorry if it came off that way. I wasn't going for any weird pretense, and don't think most people would read the comment that way.

MichaelZuo · 2026-02-04T05:03:38 1770181418

> It's not an opinion-based claim.

This sentence is literally an opinion.

Take your nonsense elsewhere, it’s totally derailling the thread.

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-04T07:12:09 1770189129

> This sentence is literally an opinion.

I could disagree but it doesn't matter. I said a particular thing was not an opinion. You pointing at something else I said and calling it an opinion doesn't affect my claims at all.

What matters is my claim that you made up stuff about _drg9's situation. That claim is objectively true or false, not an opinion. And the evidence I see all says the claim is true.

> Take your nonsense elsewhere, it’s totally derailling the thread.

Derailing what? Nobody else has posted in this part of the comments in days.

MichaelZuo · 2026-02-04T20:53:59 1770238439

This just seems like trolling now.

I cant think of anyone who cares if you classify your own opinions differently. 100% of your comments still are.

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-04T21:37:58 1770241078

If you mean that more generally, that all comments are opinions, then you don't know what the word opinion means.

If you mean just me in this conversation, some of my sentences are opinions and some aren't.

Dylan16807 · 2026-02-01T01:32:39 1769909559

How many services have meaningful SLAs for extreme downtime?

Github and (parts of) AWS will give you a small discount at 0.1% downtime, a bigger discount at 1% downtime, and AWS will refund the whole month for 5% downtime. But beyond that they don't care. If a particular customer gets no service at all then their entire $0 gets refunded and that's it.