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There are many, many competitors in this space (visualPing, changeTower, versionista, followThatPage, trackly.io). Most have similar pricing to Dffer, but some
by awill 9y ago
There are many, many competitors in this space (visualPing, changeTower, versionista, followThatPage, trackly.io). Most have similar pricing to Dffer, but some are completely free (possibly with worse UI).
I wonder whether this sort of freemium model works, because there are some people who's use case (like mine) absolutely isn't worth spending money on, but I'd like more than 3 checks for free. Obviously I'll take a worse UI that's free over spending money on such a ridiculously simple app. I could literally buy an EC2 instance just to run 10-20 daily cron jobs for less than signing up for Dffer.
My use case is to use trackly.io to see when new firmware/software updates come out for devices I own. But of course, that's never something I'd be willing to pay for.
- aakilfernandes 9y agoThere are some users who would actually rather pay $5/mo than use a free service. Thats because paying money gives the impression (real or not) that the service is more likely to stick around and be fixed when it goes down.
- devdad 9y agoFor me, $5 for not having to setup cronjobs is worth it.
- awill 9y agoI don't think price is about the task (cronjobs), it's about how you value the output. If I'm using cronjobs for some trivial unimportant task (like checking for firmware updates), I am not willing to pay. If I'm using cronjobs for super important competitive analysis, sure I'd pay.
- alexdean 9y agoDo any of these companies offer webhooks, or are they all oriented at human users reading emails?