I'm a 23 year old solo founder who lives with mom and dad..and that's important because I used to brag about my startup's burn rate which was literally $1 a month (12$ a year for .com domain)...even my heroku server is free.

This was until today where Google decided to limit Google Maps free tier quota down and hard. It used to be free for us, but now it's limited to only 25,000 loads a day. Just to give you an idea, Stay22's traffic needs around 200k loads a day. Now I'm being charged around $10,000 a month at this rate (because not only I have to pay for extra map loads, but using their API like directions and geocoding also charges me per request).

I can't afford 10k a month (esp since I have no funding yet), our revenue is barely half of that.. and changing my whole code to a free alternative like leaflet/OSM would be my worst case scenario (I'd have get my startup down for weeks just to do the transition and idk what can go wrong then (for e.g seo, backwards compatibility, etc)). My secret sauce is all coded using Google Maps's API so it's going to be tough.

What do you suggest? Any ideas? If anyone knows someone at Gmaps who can understand our situation and bill us when we raise money for example that would be great.. Or should I just man up, let my customers lose money (since the hotel revenue is shared) for weeks, and convert the code?