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Good assessment. As someone who paid for the personal plan, and watched it implode from the inside, I get the exact impression you do. The problem was the num
by RIMR 11y ago
Good assessment. As someone who paid for the personal plan, and watched it implode from the inside, I get the exact impression you do.
The problem was the number of mistakes made:
* Offering the support line as a "literal" replacement for emergency services.
* Including a racial slur in a 503 page.
* Falsely advertising the number of servers you can create as "Unlimited", when the limit is actually 2.
* Use of a generic bootstrap theme with minimal modification.
* 404'd refund and legal pages.
* Not established as a LLC.
* No way to manage billing profiles (in violation of Stripe TOS)
* Broken and untested remix of Ubuntu Server.
* No account management portal - You can't change or reset your password at all.
* Advertised as a finished product for use by businesses, when it appears to have barely been tested in-house.
This is how you lose your business, and then get sued into bankruptcy. This kid should be happy he just lost a couple thousand dollars in server hosting and refund fees, rather than millions and the loss of his credit reputation for life.
Learn a lesson from this, would-be entrepreneurs of HN. Don't do what this kid did.
- jakejake 11y agoThe fact that the pricing plans were taken as-is from an HTML template (that had nothing to do with hosting) is a pretty good sign that the project is a bit rough around the edges. A good lesson indeed, if you pretend to be serious and do a decent job, people are quite likely to take you seriously.