Discover, Build, and Scale with QuickNode
QuickNode leaders explain the 2022 launch of a free Discover tier, resilient infrastructure, usage-based billing, and support for Web3 builders.
Episode Description
QuickNode leaders explain the 2022 launch of a free Discover tier, resilient infrastructure, usage-based billing, and support for Web3 builders.
Episode Summary
In this July 2022 QuickNode Twitter Space, Anthony Campolo, Dmitry Shklovsky, and Laurence Vandeyar discuss the platform’s new Discover free tier and broader billing changes. Dmitry explains why QuickNode previously used a $9 plan and how greater support capacity made a free option practical, while connecting the company’s lean operating model to resilience during crypto downturns. Laurence describes multi-chain, multi-cloud infrastructure, redundancy, routing, monitoring, chain-specific tuning, caching, and indexing. The speakers then outline Discover’s access for learners and developers, migration considerations for existing customers, account-level billing, API credits, overages, security, analytics, support, and multi-endpoint workflows. They frame the plans as a path from experimentation to production, describe upcoming features as part of the new model, and argue that free access can help builders grow into paying customers while expanding the Web3 ecosystem.
Speakers
- Anthony Campolo
- Dmitry Shklovsky
- Laurence Vandeyar
Chapters
00:00:00 - Introducing the Billing Changes
Anthony Campolo opens the conversation with Dmitry Shklovsky and Laurence Vandeyar, presenting QuickNode’s new billing initiative. Dmitry identifies himself as co-founder and co-CEO, while Laurence describes his role leading cloud infrastructure and the work behind new plans and tiers. The central announcement is the return of a free tier, prompting a discussion of why QuickNode had previously avoided offering one and what changed in the company’s ability to support more users.
Dmitry explains that an earlier free tier attracted bad actors and spam when QuickNode was a small, pre-Y Combinator team. A $9 plan with a seven-day trial introduced deliberate friction, helping the team focus on genuine builders. After growing its support organization and Discord community, the company believed it could offer free access while maintaining customer service as its top priority.
00:03:28 - Operating Through a Crypto Downturn
Anthony asks how a Web3 infrastructure business can remain resilient during the simultaneous macroeconomic and crypto downturn. Dmitry grounds the answer in the YC principle of building something people want: a useful product that makes customers’ lives easier and that they are willing to pay for. He also points to the leadership team’s prior experience in online businesses, infrastructure, and SaaS as context for the company’s operating discipline.
The practical model is to remain lean, frugal, and intentional about hiring rather than expanding ahead of demand. Dmitry recalls that during the 2018 crypto winter, lower interest in blockchain reduced node purchases and infrastructure spending; when usage returned, QuickNode expanded again. He argues that flexible costs, staffing, and infrastructure help the business scale up or down instead of carrying unnecessary commitments through weaker cycles.
00:06:06 - Building in a Bear Market
Dmitry describes focus, determination, conviction, and sacrifice as necessary qualities for companies building during a bear market. He says QuickNode believes blockchain will affect areas including value exchange, identity, ownership, authenticity, and governance, but emphasizes that conviction must be paired with customer feedback and close attention to the industry. Teams should remain agile enough to ship important features quickly or change direction when evidence requires it.
He also presents a downturn as a sorting mechanism: projects with real utility may endure, while less useful projects can lose relevance. Anthony relates the discussion to his own experience learning from the company’s approach. The conversation then turns from business strategy to infrastructure, setting up Laurence’s explanation of the challenges of operating a multi-chain, multi-cloud, and multi-region platform for demanding applications.
00:08:22 - QuickNode’s Distributed Infrastructure
Laurence outlines QuickNode’s 2022 infrastructure footprint and the operational demands of serving decentralized finance, trading, and NFT applications. He says the platform supported 14 chains and 31 networks, with more planned, and used multiple cloud vendors, regions, and data centers to avoid dependence on one provider. The team’s goals were scale, speed, and continuous availability, requiring global engineering coverage for service operating around the clock.
He then details middleware intended to improve performance and resilience. Geographic routing sends users to a nearby data center, while monitoring checks availability, data integrity, synchronization, and node health. Intelligent call routing can direct different request types to hardware tuned for a particular chain or workload. Laurence also introduces caching and indexing as ways to reduce repeated trips to the blockchain and local disks, improving response speed for supported queries.
00:13:11 - What the Discover Plan Offers
Laurence introduces Discover as a plan for developers, learners, tinkerers, and people beginning to build in Web3. He describes it as providing broad access to QuickNode’s system for projects such as NFT applications, trading tools, archive-data exploration, chain-specific development, and analytics. The objective is to let users experiment with substantial infrastructure before they know which chain or application direction they will ultimately choose.
The speakers then address existing customers. QuickNode was working on migrating accounts from older plans to the new structure, with a migration wizard intended to move endpoints, recommend a plan based on usage, and carry over billing information. In the interim, new accounts could be created immediately, although Laurence says a new email address or supported email alias might be required because the billing model was changing from endpoint-level to account-level management.
00:16:54 - Platform Capabilities Across the Lifecycle
Dmitry presents the new QuickNode platform as serving users from initial learning through launch and scale. He describes access to blockchain data across 14 blockchains, NFT APIs, archive data, and paid-plan capabilities including a forthcoming token API, trace and debug APIs, and access to node pools across more than ten regions. In-app analytics could show method usage, timing, and performance so teams could optimize applications and reduce unnecessary calls.
He also lists endpoint security controls such as JWT, domain masking, and referral whitelisting, alongside support from a global team, Discord community, dedicated engineers for paid plans, and white-glove enterprise service. Multi-chain teams could manage production and development endpoints across networks such as Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Optimism, and Arbitrum. Multiple authentication keys would support further usage segmentation within a project or organization.
00:21:40 - API Credits and the New Pricing Model
Dmitry explains that each plan includes a defined amount of API credits, with different requests consuming different amounts based on compute, memory, disk, and network demands. If a customer exceeds the included credits, autoscaling allows the application to continue running and bills the overage at the end of the billing cycle. He presents this as a way to support growth while preserving fair use and consistent network performance.
Laurence says new features will launch under the new pricing structure rather than as separate add-ons, with customers billed according to usage. He also suggests that existing prices could decrease as QuickNode benefits from economies of scale. Anthony connects the model to developers who are learning or bootstrapping, arguing that free access and usage-based growth reduce the initial barrier to experimenting with Web3 infrastructure.
00:24:05 - Free Access, Documentation, and Customer Focus
Anthony explains why a free tier matters to developers encountering RPC infrastructure in tutorials: learners often eliminate paid providers before they understand what they need, while a free option lets them start building and discover the platform’s capabilities. He also praises QuickNode’s guides and documentation, citing a specific Svelte decentralized-application problem for which a QuickNode article was the only useful result he found.
Dmitry says the free tier does not change QuickNode’s fundamental way of doing business. The company remains focused on reducing friction, supporting users from learning through production, and designing plans from customer feedback. He describes the new structure as an evolution that gives developers tools and assistance from their first prototype onward, while preserving the company’s stated focus on enabling the blockchain and Web3 ecosystem.
00:26:59 - Balancing Free Use and Growth
Dmitry addresses the tension between offering infrastructure for free and remaining profitable. Based on QuickNode’s experience since 2017 and across customer cycles, he expects that helping more people enter Web3 can lead successful applications to grow into paying customers. He also says broader access can level the playing field by giving early-stage builders infrastructure comparable to what larger customers use, allowing them to develop more quickly.
He contrasts the tools available in 2017 and 2018 with the more abstracted interfaces and development resources available in 2022. Instead of manually copying Solidity code from a website for basic tasks, builders could use more polished tools and user interfaces. Dmitry frames the billing changes as a continuation of QuickNode’s mission to accelerate development, improve applications, and expand the pool of Web3 builders.
00:29:12 - Audience Invitation and Closing
As the planned discussion winds down, Dmitry invites listeners to ask questions, and Anthony welcomes people who use QuickNode, are considering it, or are hearing about it for the first time. No audience questions arrive during the remaining exchange. Laurence reiterates that listeners can investigate the free plan and use QuickNode’s documentation when they need an endpoint for development.
Dmitry points listeners toward contacting QuickNode through its public social channels, while Anthony mentions the company’s guides, YouTube channel, Twitch presence, and recurring Twitter Spaces as places where its content was being published in 2022. Anthony then closes the session, and Dmitry thanks the participants and listeners before Laurence adds a final sign-off. The closing exchange brings the discussion back to the support and educational channels available to builders exploring the new plans.
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00:00:00 - Anthony Campolo / Dmitry Shklovsky
Hello, everyone. Very good. Thank you for joining. Hey. What's up? Thank you, everyone for joining us. We are here to talk about the new billing for Quick Node. This is very exciting. Something I've been looking forward to for a while. So why don't you to go ahead. And as people are kind of filtering in while we just kind of introduce ourselves and say who we are, why don't you start us off Dema? Certainly. Thank you, Anthony, and thanks for everyone joining. this will be a really insightful and really fun, Twitter spaces. So my name is Dmitri. I am the co-founder and co-CEO of Quick Node. as you may or may not be aware, but we are the premier, Web3 infrastructure platform, where you can build Launch. Scale your web three applications. All right. And, Lawrence, won't you let us know who you are? Hey, guys.
00:01:12 - Laurence Vandeyar
so I'm Lawrence, the VP of cloud infrastructure here at Quick Note. super excited to start with you all today about this, massive initiative that we've been working on quietly in the background, launching our new tiers and new plans.
00:01:25 - Laurence Vandeyar
So super, super excited to jump in.
00:01:30 - Anthony Campolo / Dmitry Shklovsky
Great. Yeah, well, we should start this off. so we are adding a free tier. why didn't we have a free tier before? Yeah. It's a great question to to kick this off. so first and foremost, fun fact, we did have a free tier before, and we, realized that it encountered, quite, quite a bit of bad actors, and also a lot of spam. And, you know, when we first launched, our, our API platform, that we were. This was pre Y Combinator. so like 2020, 20, mid 2020, we were like a 5 or 6 person team. and we were just not, equipped to a support, the, the newcomers and the builders with lots of questions. so we actually introduced, deliberately introduced a little bit of friction by creating a $9 plan. which, you know, relatively low barrier to entry, with a seven day free trial. So, you know, this kind of weeded out the bad actors, eliminated a bunch of spam, allowed us to focus, and, on the on the real users, and offer them the best customer experience, which to this day is, is our number one priority.
00:02:51 - Anthony Campolo / Dmitry Shklovsky
We want to make sure that everyone has the best experience on our platform. but, you know, now, after graduating Y Combinator, raising seed round, raising a round. been through a couple of these, crypto cycles, and I think we'll get into that a little later. I'd love to comment on that a little bit later. you know, we now have, the proper support structure, the proper support team discord community of 3000 plus members. to be able to provide that, that kind of service and make sure everyone has the best experience. Yeah, that that makes a lot of sense.
00:03:28 - Anthony Campolo
And it's a shame that, you know, if you put something out there and you have like a free tier, then just a bunch of people like swoop in and try and take advantage of that. But it's good that we're in a position now where we can kind of mitigate that and, and take it on as it comes. You mentioned the, you know, the, the kind of downturn. There's the, you know, macro downturn, kind of crypto downturn at the same time.
00:03:50 - Anthony Campolo
So I'd be curious, you know, how is it that you think about how to make a like business model that can withstand that, that'll stay resilient throughout that. Is that something that you kind of like specifically architected? Quick note to be prepared for.
00:04:06 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Cool. Yeah. Well, first and foremost, you want to build something people want, which is the YC model. You want to make sure that you have a product that has, real utility that people want to use. Makes their lives easier. That they want to pay for. and, you know, this comes from our leadership teams, decade plus experience running, other businesses, online businesses, web infrastructure businesses, SaaS businesses. so, you know, it's it's about the product, about the structure, about the culture. also staying lean, frugal. being very intentional about hiring. Don't over hire. You know, you see, with a lot of, if you're in the market right now and with, with, the, the downturn in the crypto market, you know, some companies are experiencing layoffs.
00:05:00 - Dmitry Shklovsky
And I feel like, maybe they hired too quickly and they didn't hire with the best intent. So, you know, this this led to some inconsistencies and inefficiencies, within the company. So, yeah, definitely. You know, we we, we hire intentionally, for positions that absolutely must be filled. and, you know, the business should be able to scale up and down. So, you know, in 2018, during crypto winter, when there was less interest in blockchain in general, less people were purchasing nodes. So we, consequently spent less on infrastructure. So, and then when, when the business returned, well, as more and more users started to come on a platform, We we expand our infrastructure. We expanded our team. and so, yeah, just kind of being dynamic and having that flexibility, really helps a business, prosper and endure difficult times.
00:06:06 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah. In terms of, like building specifically in a bear market, is there something that you think other Web3 crypto companies should kind of have on their mind now to make it through this cycle?
00:06:17 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Yeah.
00:06:18 - Dmitry Shklovsky
So the point I mentioned before, but also, you know, focus, determination, conviction, and obviously sacrifice. You know, we believe that Web3 is the future. We believe that blockchain technology is revolutionary and will continue to revolutionize the internet and, permeate to every aspect of our lives. I mean, you know, it's from exchange of value to identity, ownership and authenticity. governance. So there's there's so many applications. And, you know, we're seeing experiments here and there. Play out. but yeah, just being being focused, staying focused, believing in what you're doing and obviously listening to customers, you know, your customers and your users because they are the real indicator, keeping your hand on the pulse of the industry and really seeing what's going on. stay agile. Like, if you need to pivot or if you need to ship a feature out really, really fast. You know, those are those are also dynamics that you have to consider. But, you know, building in a, in a bear market, is interesting because it separates the, let's say, the real and true projects from the projects that maybe were not so useful that don't have a place in the future, in history.
00:07:39 - Dmitry Shklovsky
So, yeah.
00:07:43 - Anthony Campolo
Awesome. Thank you for that. Yeah. I feel very fortunate that I get to live through this cycle and get to see a team that has really, you know, thought about how to how to handle and how to kind of take it on responsibly. So I feel very fortunate to get a kind of education on, you know, how to how to handle these kind of times when we get a little bit more into the the tech of quick notes. So, Lawrence, I'll be curious. You know, quick note, we're we're multi chain multi-cloud multi-region not we're not multi planetary yet but maybe one day. And I would be curious to know what are some of the challenges that come along with running that kind of infrastructure.
00:08:22 - Laurence Vandeyar
Yeah. Great question. And yeah. Like we're already building data centers on the moon so soon to come, right? yeah. So like you said, so we're multi chain multi-cloud. we, host the infrastructure for DeFi and decentralized players, folks doing things like trading, low latency trading, things like NFT drops.
00:08:45 - Laurence Vandeyar
So. So when I'm working on cloud infrastructure, the most important thing is, look, we have to build for these DeFi guys. so with that said, like, we're not hosted on any one cloud vendor. like, we have multiple cloud vendors, multiple regions, multiple data centers, just multiple layers of redundancy. And then, we're we are quick note right. So quick center names. So how do we make sure that we're building infrastructure. it's built for scale but also built for speed. Right. like these are all challenges that we have, when trying to keep up with infrastructure and then managing that infrastructure. it's 24 by seven, 365 days of the year, right? no days often. doing that is like we have to hire globally and hire engineers globally and staff and then, so that our clients can have the very best, in, service for their applications.
00:09:44 - Anthony Campolo
Awesome. And do you speak a little more to what exactly is the the tech that we work with here? Like what do we support and where some of our kind of key features.
00:09:55 - Laurence Vandeyar
Yeah, a great question. So so without giving away too much of the secret sauce, here a quick note. we support 14 chains. 31 networks and much, much more on the way. part of what makes us great is, best in class performance. Fastest speeds in the majority of the locations worldwide. Highest reliability. Right. So we, we have a background of, all working in very important technology that cannot go down and be built. those levels, or that level of service to all the things we host frequently. like I mentioned, we have distribution, right? So, When we build our goal is N plus two. N plus three just never have a single point of failure. we have some middleware that's part of the secret sauce too. Right. So for example, we have, John's routing. So what that is, is, based on where we're coming from in the world. we route you to the closest quick node data center to you. and what that does is that really reduces your latency and increases your speed.
00:11:08 - Laurence Vandeyar
some more features in the middleware as we have, like, crazy obsessive, monitoring on your node health. Right. So, multiple checks to check availability. but outside of, just availability, right. Like, we're doing, like, data type integrity. fully synchronized nodes. like fully healthy nodes. the other pieces that we have in our middle layer is, we do like intelligent call routing. Right? So for example, based on the type of call you, based on the type of call you make. the system's smart, is smart enough to know, to route you not just to the right chain, but to a specific set of hardware that's been fully optimizing, tuned just for that chain. and then, part of what, us, part of what makes us the very best in the industry is, look, we've maintained a series of configurations that, that specifically tuned for the nodes for, all the chains. So like, chain specific configs, but also like specific specific configs based on the type of call.
00:12:17 - Laurence Vandeyar
Right. So, for example, if you have a very, compute specific call, we have tuned that node and have saved that across, all of the nodes that are handling, that type of call. And then lastly, super excited to talk about caching and indexing. Right? So, we're starting to introduce this, more and more. so the blockchain is, essentially a static record of transactions. So, instead of going to the blockchain and making a query each time, we're starting to incorporate caching, which will in turn make our platform super fast, right? Because, no longer we have to go out to a node, what's called the blockchain or calls down locally to disk, but it's just in a really fast, layer to cache.
00:13:11 - Anthony Campolo
Cool. Yeah, that sounds great. That's a lot of really good stuff there. while we get into now the the new plan. So it's called the discover plan. You want to talk a little bit about what exactly you will get on this plan and then what the plan means for existing customers.
00:13:32 - Laurence Vandeyar
Oh, yeah. Great question. so we're super excited about our discover plan, right? this is like this, super highly anticipated plan. we really built this plan for, the developers, all the new tinkerers. and also for for folks. just starting our learning and Web3. so what this plan gets you is, almost full access to our system, right? So, for example, if you want to try building an NFT app or get metadata based on an NFT. if you want to start building a trading application, if you want to start, looking at the archive, you want to try, if you want to develop against a specific chain, you're more than welcome to. And then also, really, if you're looking in, to the development of, like, the analytical side, This is a great plan. Great plan to get you started. and then just the second part of your question. what does it mean for existing customers? Right. So, we really value our existing customers, and we think, we would love for everyone to try the new plan.
00:14:47 - Laurence Vandeyar
So what we're working on is, is we're working on a migration. If you're on one of our old plans to take you over to one of the new plans, but you don't want to wait on our migration. you can sign up for a new account today and get started right away in just a few seconds.
00:15:01 - Anthony Campolo
And would you use the same email for that, or do you need a different email if you're re signing up?
00:15:07 - Laurence Vandeyar
Yeah. Great question. so so this is one of the things that we've heard from clients is that, we do we do require you to use a new email address, but you could use an alias, for example. So, if your mail provider, supports the dot or the pluses, you would have to do that. But again, like, we're really working on, a smart migration wizard. As an existing customer. that will help you migrate all your endpoints, choose the right plan, and recommend the new plan based on your usage, and migrate all your billing information so it will make it super seamless.
00:15:45 - Anthony Campolo
Cool. Yeah, that's sad because like, even though I have a quick no account like I work for quick note I can get access to to endpoints actually like having my own account that I just like sign up for stuff also. And so I've been waiting for this to, to come through so I could sign up for it myself. And I noticed that like I already had some accounts, but then it wasn't entirely clear. Like if I could get the free plan on that one or not. So thank you for for clarifying that. That's really useful.
00:16:09 - Laurence Vandeyar
Yeah. Real quick, just to explain why. Right. So, when, when we developed these new plans, what we did was we moved on a per endpoint level billing. Right. So, for example, in the old plans, we would bill you, based on the number of endpoints you had. Now, based on the plan you choose. if you get multiple endpoints. So we had to build this mechanism to support, not what's called, like, account level billing.
00:16:37 - Laurence Vandeyar
So, when you create a new account, you get all the bells and whistles that, make the account level billing, versus the endpoint level building. So, this is what the migration wizard is going to walk you through and getting.
00:16:54 - Anthony Campolo
Okay, great. That makes sense. All right, so now that we've talked a little bit about the new billing, DBA, where do you think quick Node stands right now just overall as a platform. Like where it's strengths. Where does it kind of sit against others?
00:17:11 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Sure. Yeah. well, this new iteration, this new version of Quick Node, is all about unleashing the most powerful Web3 infrastructure platform. so it's both it's it's the free tier for the developers, the learners and tinkerers, they get the same powerful infra used by some of the biggest names. tools to learn. Sandbox. Test. Prototype. You know, you get the, access to, NFT APIs, and, archive data as well. So full, full blockchain data across 14 different blockchains.
00:17:50 - Dmitry Shklovsky
So really, really flexible. And you know which area you want to go and try with, with, experiment with different chains. See which one is better for your application. and then with our paid plans, build and scale, even more access. So that would include, our, our token API, forthcoming GA, trace and debug APIs, something we've had since 2018. superb, pool access, which, you know, we have a broad view of the network because we run nodes in over ten regions worldwide. And so we have an excellent view of the pool. And you know that all that functionality gets translated to to our users. We have excellent in in app analytics. So you can analyze which method calls are being called by your application most often at what time periods. performance metrics around those. So to help you better understand your, how your users are interacting with your app, maybe areas you can optimize, maybe with areas you can reduce calls or just make your, your app faster or leaner.
00:19:08 - Unidentified speaker
And security features.
00:19:10 - Dmitry Shklovsky
so you can secure you can lock down your endpoint or open it up as much as you want depending on your, on your needs. So we support JWT, JSON web token, domain masking and referral whitelisting, so all of this is easily configurable within the user interface. mentioned previously, you know, we have a global support team, 3000 plus community members in discord to support, you know, newcomers and even people who, developers who might already be, experienced in the space but maybe want to bounce an idea or get some additional help from other developers in the space. So our discord is a great way to, to get into that and get that help. email support from dedicated engineers for pay plans. So if you have a question or have a trouble, with, with your, with your endpoint or anything with your account, we have both technical and billing engineers, available, and we have white glove service available for enterprise customers, which may include direct Slack or Telegram with direct access to engineers, dedicated account managers, success managers.
00:20:27 - Dmitry Shklovsky
you know, so with with the quick note platform, you can go all the way from learning how to build on blockchain to launching your project all the way to scaling, to be the next, Uniswap or, Magic Eden or OpenSea or whatnot. so we give you support through the entire lifecycle. another great thing on the pay plans is you can have multiple endpoints. So, a number of projects are going multi chain. So, you know, they might have a production environment on Ethereum, a development environment on Ethereum, then have some stuff on polygon. on, on the main net and Mumbai testnet. And then you know, there might be some other layer two rollups happening on optimism or arbitrage. so in a case of like NFT projects, you might, you know, you have Solana NFTs, you have Ethereum NFTs and polygon NFTs. And so you can manage your entire stack, production and development environment, within your quick node user control panel. And you can also create multiple auth keys for endpoints.
00:21:40 - Dmitry Shklovsky
So if you want to segment your usage even more, maybe have a separate off key per developer per employee whatnot. So that's also available. and now, you know, there's a move to you only pay for what you use. So in each plan is included a certain amount of API credits. and you can use those API credits. And if you, exceed the amount of API credits included in your base plan, there is a, auto scaling, feature, which you it will your app will continue to run. You will continue to consume the API credits and that overages just build it at the end of your billing cycle so you can scale way beyond what your plan includes. so some some calls use more compute, more memory, more disk and more network. So some calls use more than one API credits. and this is to ensure fair use and the integrity of our network, which is super, super key to us. We want to make sure that everyone has the best experience, that there's consistent performance.
00:22:52 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Laurence had mentioned global, global account billing. So one single bill for all the chains and all of your usage. and, Laurence, I think you can speak to the new features that will launch under this new pricing model.
00:23:08 - Laurence Vandeyar
Oh, yeah. Of course. Yeah, yeah. Quick note, we're constantly building new features that we're super excited about, like, just working with the team. I've seen, sort of the very best in the industry working for Quick Note, and we're working on bleeding as new features all day. I wish I could talk to about it, but I can't. But just super important to note, all new features will launch under this new pricing plan, right? So, we'll, we'll, we'll be able to price, of, these features not as an add on, but, just as part of the plan. and you only get billed for what you use. and then also, as we start to operate on economies of scale. Right. like, we can offer, price reductions in the future.
00:23:53 - Laurence Vandeyar
Right. So, on all the existing features that we have today, some of them could potentially go, go down as we start to see some economies of scale.
00:24:05 - Anthony Campolo
Awesome. Yeah, that was a lot of good stuff there. I was saying earlier how, you know, I've been really looking forward to this rollout and this is something that I've been kind of have my eye on, because if someone has a, you know, developer advocate, I think that it's really important to offer something like this. When I was first learning how to do just like, Web3 stuff, you know, I'd be reading these tutorials and that point in the tutorial, they'd be like, nah, you gotta go SIP and RPC endpoint and use one of these providers and, you know, give you a list of a couple to check out. And for me, I would look at that list. There would be, you know, some free options and then maybe some paid options. And the paid options would just get cross off the list like right away, you know, because I'm just I'm learning.
00:24:44 - Anthony Campolo
I'm still trying to get my head around stuff. And then there's going to be free options and those usually worth going for. So I think this is really going to help for developers who just want to like start learning how to use this stuff, or even people who are experienced. If you're someone who wants to like, build a business, but you're bootstrapping, be able to have the usage of your platform really scale with you. Is is really important. So highly recommend people who want to check this stuff out. To take a look at some of the quick note guides and docs the other day. Actually, I was needing to build something very specific, like a dap with svelte, and I was googling around. I was only able to find one article on the entire internet that was able to to help me out. That happened to be a quick note article. So it's very cool to to see those come up. All right. as we're start getting to the end here, Dema, does having a free tier fundamentally change the quick note of business like how we do business? Do you think it's different now?
00:25:50 - Dmitry Shklovsky
I think how we do business doesn't change.
00:25:53 - Dmitry Shklovsky
We we continue to be focused on our users, on the customers, making sure, you know, that they're able to build with, the least amount of friction that they're able to scale and have the tools and support from day one. and so, you know, we design our plans by listening to our users, listen to our customers. And, you know, from from your learning to prototyping to launching your app all the way up to running a business. And then, you know, perhaps you become the next unicorn. we have we have that, foundation in the resources to support you. So it's just, it's just an evolution in the way quick note functions. we're still super, super focused on the user. obsessed with with, the customer and, Yeah, making sure that, you know, what, what we build, really enables the, the blockchain ecosystem and, the Web3 community.
00:26:59 - Anthony Campolo
Great, great. And then last question, this is kind of the existential question that comes along. Any time you do this.
00:27:06 - Anthony Campolo
How do you balance having a free tier and remaining profitable because, you know, by definition you're not getting paid if someone's using something for free. So how do you how do you square that circle?
00:27:17 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Yeah. I think, you know, once, once, you know, we've been we've been doing this since 2017 and we've seen, cycles, like customer cycles. And, you know, I think at this point, if you can enable more people and onboard more people onto Web3 and, give them the tools and the resources they need, you know, the idea is that their, their application will grow and they will grow into a paying customer. so I think it's it's important to have to have that balance. But also, you know, being able to listen to the feedback from some of the larger, customers and then, get giving the same kind of access to your, your free plan, kind of levels the playing field because, you can have somebody come in, with, with no product and leverage the same, the same infrastructure or the same tools to build their application, you know, ten times quicker.
00:28:20 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Like if you look at the the infrastructure tools that were available in 2017 and 2018 when literally if you wanted to, transfer to tokens you had, you may have needed to go to a website, and like copy paste, solidity code, where today a lot of the stuff is abstracted and you have, slick UIs. and then the same goes for development. There's just so, so many more things out, so many more tools and pieces of software and resources out there that help you build faster and help you build, better versions of your applications. So, it's just a continuation of, of our mission in, an enabling growth in the blockchain ecosystem and enabling the web through builders.
00:29:12 - Anthony Campolo
Great that we're about at the end of our time here. Is there anything either of you to want to say to kind of close that or last thoughts called actions you want the listeners to take away?
00:29:23 - Dmitry Shklovsky
I'm curious if anyone maybe take another five minutes. If anyone has a question or two. I know just, you know, just it's just been us talking.
00:29:33 - Dmitry Shklovsky
So if anyone has a question, feel free to raise a hand.
00:29:39 - Anthony Campolo
Yeah, I would love to get some input from the audience. Anyone who is either using us, thinking about using us, or hearing about us for the first time, feel free to hop on up.
00:29:51 - Laurence Vandeyar
Yep. And well, I just want to say, if you haven't already signed up for a free plan, go and check us out. Right? Like we want, everyone to use quick notes of calling those docs and, need to build an end point. Come and check us out.
00:30:06 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Cool. And for those of you listening after the fact, you can always tweet us. You can always DM at Quick Node. and yeah, we'll, we'll we'll answer your messages and questions and requests. Yeah.
00:30:21 - Anthony Campolo
And we have a lot of channels now with some content going out. We have our guides on. Com we also have a YouTube channel. We got Twitch. And then we're doing these Twitter spaces every week. So if you're curious to learn more to kind of follow the quick node journey, we got a lot of stuff for you.
00:30:43 - Anthony Campolo
And it doesn't look like anyone is coming up to ask questions. So I think we could close it out here.
00:30:50 - Dmitry Shklovsky
Thank you everyone. Thank you Anthony. Thank you Lawrence. Thanks everyone for listening. We'll catch you in the Web3 verse.
00:30:59 - Laurence Vandeyar
I'll take you up.