Platforms keep changing the deal after you've built on them

Withings now charges new users $99/year to sync scale and blood pressure data to Apple Health, and one commenter hopes someone reverse engineers the devices with an LLM so people can sync data themselves. Anthropic told Claude Code subscribers they can no longer use their plans with OpenClaw, offering a one-time credit instead. Commenters called it a money grab and pointed out that you're hitting rate limits in the afternoon and still being told to pay variable extra usage. Deno, once the clean alternative to Node, is going away as it was after Cloudflare bought it, and one commenter listed how Deno walked back its original terms one piece at a time. Krea 3 got called out for sneaky pricing: decline a plan and it offers you a discount.

This is the key bit: in every case the product was already bought or adopted, and the terms changed afterward. Older threads in the mix rhyme with it, like Slack killing its IRC and XMPP gateways, and Stripe and Google Cloud cutting off production accounts with little warning.

The response is visible in the 'What I self-host' thread, where people say self-hosting is the real disruptive future, not AI.