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This is right on. When I saw the pricing I had major sticker shock but after looking at this post and seeing the homepage it seems like certain organizations mi

by nerdy 10y ago

This is right on. When I saw the pricing I had major sticker shock but after looking at this post and seeing the homepage it seems like certain organizations might find value in it.

Rezo 10y ago
I've heard similar feedback, and it's entirely possible the pricing is wrong and I may have to adjust, however for a certain type of company I think the value is there. Based on the number of companies signing up for the trial, it's looking good. Something I wrote earlier to explain the thinking behind the price: An hour of work of a salaried Senior Software Engineer costs on average $56 across the US [] (and quite a bit higher in Silicon Valley for example). If you're a consultant selling your AWS expertise, based on my own experience you will be charging at least $200 for an hour of your time. If Cloudcraft helps you do your job better, helps you coordinate with your team (for example by you creating a Green-Blue deployment blueprint that everyone will finally understand), win you client as a consult, impress your boss in presentations, it's great value for you. If it saves you more than an hour, it's only good value. And I'm absolutely sure we can save you more than an hour if you work in a team on AWS every day! Let's compare that to some other SaaS costs that my small business pays: We pay $75 for a performance monitoring agent per host (with MANY hosts) through New Relic, because it helps us pinpoint performance problems better than anybody else, and saves us engineering time. We pay $49 per month per team member to PagerDuty to send us an SMS if the site goes down. So far it has happened exactly once. I'm a very happy user of this service! We pay $40 per team member for a shared email inbox (also known as help desk software :), because it helps us coordinate who is answering a question, keeps a record, and saves us time. Cloudcraft is currently priced the same as a single m3.medium instance in AWS. We think we'll be able to create you more value than that. If you disagree, if you're just learning AWS, if you're on the free AWS tier, etc. I think the Free plan is pretty awesome: you can create the exact same thing as with Pro, only with a smaller scale. [] http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Software_Development/Hourly_Rate http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Software_Develo...

by nerdy 10y ago

This is right on. When I saw the pricing I had major sticker shock but after looking at this post and seeing the homepage it seems like certain organizations might find value in it.

Rezo 10y ago

I've heard similar feedback, and it's entirely possible the pricing is wrong and I may have to adjust, however for a certain type of company I think the value is there. Based on the number of companies signing up for the trial, it's looking good. Something I wrote earlier to explain the thinking behind the price: An hour of work of a salaried Senior Software Engineer costs on average $56 across the US [] (and quite a bit higher in Silicon Valley for example). If you're a consultant selling your AWS expertise, based on my own experience you will be charging at least $200 for an hour of your time. If Cloudcraft helps you do your job better, helps you coordinate with your team (for example by you creating a Green-Blue deployment blueprint that everyone will finally understand), win you client as a consult, impress your boss in presentations, it's great value for you. If it saves you more than an hour, it's only good value. And I'm absolutely sure we can save you more than an hour if you work in a team on AWS every day! Let's compare that to some other SaaS costs that my small business pays: We pay $75 for a performance monitoring agent per host (with MANY hosts) through New Relic, because it helps us pinpoint performance problems better than anybody else, and saves us engineering time. We pay $49 per month per team member to PagerDuty to send us an SMS if the site goes down. So far it has happened exactly once. I'm a very happy user of this service! We pay $40 per team member for a shared email inbox (also known as help desk software :), because it helps us coordinate who is answering a question, keeps a record, and saves us time. Cloudcraft is currently priced the same as a single m3.medium instance in AWS. We think we'll be able to create you more value than that. If you disagree, if you're just learning AWS, if you're on the free AWS tier, etc. I think the Free plan is pretty awesome: you can create the exact same thing as with Pro, only with a smaller scale. [] http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Software_Development/Hourly_Rate http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Industry=Software_Develo...