Unlikely to be successful. GCP and AWS have pretty tight terms of service and you're legally SOL unless there was true negligence. Accounts rarely get suspended for no reason. There is likely more to this story that Railway isn't sharing.
How the heck do these things happen, especially with companies with huge monthly spend? At my last job we had some suspicious workloads running on AWS and our TAM reached out to us before taking any action. Who wants to bet this was some AI automation gone wrong and because GCP seems to be allergic to actually contacting a human to get a response, this just sits in some support queue that outsourced workers look at after a few hours just to give a canned response?
"App" is still hard-wired into my brain after my last job. It's web-only right now but I do want to get iOS and Android version when I have the time (or money).
Right now we're processing a lot of data from various government sources and other free datasets to get salary information across all of the major US metros. Plus ingesting a bunch of data from some unnamed paid job posting APIs (respecting ToS) and pulling out reported salary information, if it exists. It's why the landing page is marked as "US-only" right now, I wanted a tight scope for an MVP launch. I have a number of tech friends in Canada so that'll probably be the next country I support.
Right now I'm basing the user's salary data on the metro where they currently live. Not perfect and not the long term solution but cracking it fell to the cutting room floor to get an MVP shipped. That was a difficult cut but I gave myself a mid-May deadline to get something shipped.
Re: Uneven sample distribution. Sample size is a first-class concept in scoring. For each user's metro+role+level slice, n is computed over a trailing 60-day window. Below a threshold (currently 30), I aggregate to a broader peer group and explicitly flag lower confidence on the score. Bayesian priors derived from the nationwide distribution for that role help fill in thin slices, so a senior Rust dev in Boise still gets a number but they also see "this is computed from a small local sample plus regional inference" rather than a false-precision point estimate. It's a lot and is still being fine-tuned.
Pay transparency laws in CA/NYC/CO/WA are helping but coverage is patchy.
Right now I'm not using any user-provided data in calculations as my user-base is too small and there's too much risk for identification. Eventually I want to add opt-in data submission so we can run real-time metro-aware compensation surveys based on consented and anonymized peer data.
I know we're all programmers here but stop trying to build rules and logic around this. We all (should) have the common sense to understand when something is rape and when something is not. There is no trigger, there is no conditional, there is no callback, it just is and people who fail to understand this make me sick.
A number of people's lives have been forever changed by the recently surfaced actions and instead of focusing on the "what ifs" and the hypothetical situations we focus on fixing the underlying problems within our community.
Visit Pittsburgh someday. We have some hollow suburbia but we don't have the typical endless suburban sprawl. We do have a fair amount of hipsters though, just a warning.