Surprise, Pay $1000
apike
62 points
10 comments
June 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
scared_together
How exactly would BlackSmith enforce the overdue payment? By sending the user to court?
dd8601fn
That sounds sketchy AF.
nailer
Blacksmith are wrong, but also they’re a YC company- they may be young founders that haven’t run a SaaS before and genuinely don’t know how to handle free trials.
rcleveng
WoW. That's certainly a surprise to me. I'd never expect an invoice after not putting in a card. I also believe this is totally just a case of "billing and metering is hard, and may actually be a larger engineering effort than your actual service". I was just looking at them earlier today since our Github actions are slow AF, and while they sounds great, this tells me it'll cost me more time to make sure I babysit it than most other trials. With most of these, they end, the service stops working, and you have a choice to make: (a) it was worth it sign up, (b) not worth it revert.
datadrivenangel
Sounds like a business partner who will squeeze you again later
arjie
Ah, too risky to try for small operators. Good to know. Thanks for the fair warning.