Is there an example of a consumer facing SaaS that's been able to handle the "unlimited" in a way you'd consider positive?

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ethbr1 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

US cellular data plans? Where it's throttled after soft cap?

Although I will say it's been nice to have them give more transparency around their actual soft cap numbers.

	▲	bombcar 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That’s an example of where unlimited can work (because the limit is a number of hours of degraded service which is quantifiable). Storage was already a hairy beast with the original setup, and it would be much better if they had defined limits you could at least know about (and pay for).

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Aerroon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google and Youtube, especially Youtube.

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tedivm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google does not have unlimited. I had to pay to increase my storage.

	▲	samfriedman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Google Drive reneged on unlimited storage for Education accounts once they realized that universities also contain researchers who need to store huge amounts of data.

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Chaosvex 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles.

	▲	bombcar 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We all know the "nobody has watched this video in ten years, login at least once or it'll be yeeted" email is coming, someday.
	▲	UltraSane 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		YouTube shorts are incredibly highly compressed.

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Spooky23 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can only do it during growth phases or if there’s complimentary products with margin. The story I was told about Office 365 was the when they were using spinning disk, exchange was IOPS-bound, so they had lots of high volume, low iops storage to offer for SharePoint. Google has a similar story, although neither are really unlimited, but approaching unlimited with for large customers.

Once growth slows, churn eats much of the organic growth and you need to spend money on marketing.

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Imustaskforhelp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Telegram?