I am a big fan of Meteor, evangelize it for free and this makes me angry.<p>1. Many of free sites are demo sites of their packages and tutorials. This would hurt the ecosystem.<p>2. Two week notice before shutting down is way too short. Should I trust Galaxy given this reputation?<p>3. Well I see a lot of AdSense ads about Meteor. That's probably terrible way of burning VC money and I don't think devs pick frameworks based on ads. Running tiny utility likely is way more important.
Just shutting the thing seems a bit inconvenient. They could instead have announced they were charging something modest - say first month free then $5 and made some money while allowing the old stuff to work.
Sad to see this go. `meteor deploy' and having your project online was a part of the bewilderment that Meteor gave me when I was first introduced to it.