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deweytoday at 12:41 PM1 replyview on HN

That's not what vendor lock in means. If you sign up for a cloud hoster and then build your whole product on propriety services that you can't get anywhere else instead of using an off the shelf database or open source software, that's vendor lock in.

If you'd have to switch to a different tool to do your coding that's not vendor lock in.


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pshirshovtoday at 2:34 PM

In this case you are locking your workflow to the vendor's solution.