The company behind the platform Railway has been growing rapidly and has noticed that its pricing model is confusing, particularly with its free tier. They want to disincentivize abuse by altering the free experience but don't think traditional SaaS approaches like paywalls or slower builds would be a good fit. Instead, they're introducing a new pricing model where Railway will cost $5 per month by default, with a one-time $5 free credit for users who want to continue using it after that. The platform will also offer more features and improvements, including private networking, dynamic persistent disks, lifecycle management, spend/resource limits, and regions, all of which will be built into the platform instead of being offered as external services.