My firebase bill is usually $50/month, but I was surprised to see a ~$70,000 bill in one day.

Now Google is mentioning in 10 days it will be sent to debt collection

Can anyone help?? The project had been downgraded for some time but when I randomly upgraded the project in October, there was a bug in the code from an Upwork engineer. The app accidentally stored 1PB of data in GCS despite only running on Oct 18.

I woke up to my card declining a $61,200 charge and immediately downgraded the project.

My friends and I built the most viral social app of 2023

We grew to 10M users and $200k daily revenue ($6M MRR) in just 2 days, right before a coordinated effort between Meta, Apple, and Namecheap completely shut us down

A year later, I'm sharing our story for the first time… Our app was called Wrapped - we took the fun of Spotify Wrapped and built it for Instagram, showing your analytics as slides you could share to your story.

I was 21 building this from my bedroom with 2 friends as a side project. We had no idea how quickly it would grow

1/ Blobs unlock unprecedented scaling for L2s, but have huge gas spikes and price volatility. They lack financialization like hedging and fractionalization.

I've just quit my job at Apple to build blobspace derivatives & contribute to the ETH ecosystem:

mirror.xyz/0x1Ca8D5E43A19… 2/ The Dencun upgrade enabled record-high usage and 10x lower fees for L2s with blobs.

However, 10,000%+ gas spikes via Inscriptions soon highlighted their price volatility during high network demand. Future congestion events threaten more unpredictable costs for rollups.