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Sorry if it wasn't clear -- this is an idea on how to capitalize on people picking Firebase and then wanting out later. I think there's a similar business here for getting people off of some other famous data stores (particularly in the document storage space) as well -- not limited to firebase.

Trying to convince everyone in the world to use the right solution for their actual problem the first time (and effectively going against Google's marketing machine, momentum of the general project, discounted plans, etc) is not my cup of tea.

IMO the right database for the overwhelming majority of startups is Postgres, vertically scaled until it needs read-replicas. The extension ecosystem, burgeoning support for configurable table access methods makes it a no-brainer. I don't have sufficient experience to back this statement (I haven't run that many startups, I don't run an accelerator/VC, etc) but I'd love it if some else that could refute it would show up.

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