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regarding the pricing, i dont think its fair to compare Zapier (or IFTTT) services with other SaaS. The reason is there is considerable amount of investment on

regarding the pricing, i dont think its fair to compare Zapier (or IFTTT) services with other SaaS. The reason is there is considerable amount of investment on maintenance from Zapier side for keeping their plugins/libraries up to date with the APIs/services. If you consider evernote, once they develop it, they have to fix bug on may be the core platform plus a dozen other microservices and UI modules. But for an integration service like Zapier, they have to maintain more than 200 and sometimes close to 1000 components.

ryanmercer 8y ago
>The reason is there is considerable amount of investment on maintenance from Zapier side for keeping their plugins/libraries up to date with the APIs/services. Which they are already doing for the companies paying them several hundreds, or thousands, of dollars a month... That's like saying "Sorry, we won't sell you 100 lowly private individual an Impala, we only want to sell hundreds of them at a time to fleet-buyers, it costs us a lot of money to design these things!"
- 1123581321 8y ago
  That’s actually how it would go if there were a lot of interested fleets and not enough individual buyers to sustain dealerships. I totally understand that you want to use Zapier and save money, but you have to keep in mind a) you are (likely) a more expensive customer than you think you are, b) Zapier can’t serve you without self-cannibalizing. And this is an issue because you undervalue software; if Zapier is worth anything to you, it’s likely worth $20/mo but you are conditioned to not pay for something like that. This isn’t peculiar to you, but it’s something to be aware of.