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It’s at the bottom of the landing page: https://idbloc.co/#pricing https://idbloc.co/#pricing The goal is to explain the concept ahead of the pricing as I thin

It’s at the bottom of the landing page: https://idbloc.co/#pricing https://idbloc.co/#pricing The goal is to explain the concept ahead of the pricing as I think it’s quite novel to most users.

prepend 7y ago
I pay $30/year for a cpanel host that includes unlimited mail forwarding for any address on any domain. This is a byproduct of what I really do which is host a bunch of sites. $48/year for email scrubbing seems like a high price. I think it’s great, and use it a lot. Just wonder how you got to that price vs like $10/year.
- albertgoeswoof 7y ago
  Pro users subsidise the free ones, unfortunately. Assuming a 1% conversion rate to pay server costs and 1-2 devs full time at 4 usd/pro user/month you need 2500 pro users, which is 250,000 users. That and people pay 4 bucks for a coke these days so it’s not really much. Also cPanel is most definitely an expert tool. I might make it paid only soon and reduce the price but at present there’s not much option to get real feedback and user traction.
  - criddell 7y ago
    Once it's up and running, does it really take 2 full-time people to keep it running?
  - prepend 7y ago
    Thanks, this helps me understand and I appreciate you going into cost model for something that’s really up to you to decide. $4 is not very much, you’re right, but that doesn’t mean that it should be spent unwisely otherwise it adds up quickly. It seems unlikely that this would need a full time dev to operate and seems more like a “4 hour workweek” type business once it’s set up that would have pretty minimal maintenance, or a super bored developer waiting around for a bug to patch. Do you think you’ll drop the price once you no longer need a dev?
acdha 7y ago
That page should have some sort of indication that it's scrollable since browsers increasingly don't show visible scrollbars until you're already scrolling. Something like Bootstrap's scrollspy might be useful since it could also show you the sections further down before you scroll through the intermediate sections.
golem14 7y ago
Thanks. I had not noticed even though I scrolled to the bottom

It’s at the bottom of the landing page: https://idbloc.co/#pricing https://idbloc.co/#pricing The goal is to explain the concept ahead of the pricing as I think it’s quite novel to most users.

prepend 7y ago

I pay $30/year for a cpanel host that includes unlimited mail forwarding for any address on any domain. This is a byproduct of what I really do which is host a bunch of sites. $48/year for email scrubbing seems like a high price. I think it’s great, and use it a lot. Just wonder how you got to that price vs like $10/year.

albertgoeswoof 7y ago
Pro users subsidise the free ones, unfortunately. Assuming a 1% conversion rate to pay server costs and 1-2 devs full time at 4 usd/pro user/month you need 2500 pro users, which is 250,000 users. That and people pay 4 bucks for a coke these days so it’s not really much. Also cPanel is most definitely an expert tool. I might make it paid only soon and reduce the price but at present there’s not much option to get real feedback and user traction.
- criddell 7y ago
  Once it's up and running, does it really take 2 full-time people to keep it running?
- prepend 7y ago
  Thanks, this helps me understand and I appreciate you going into cost model for something that’s really up to you to decide. $4 is not very much, you’re right, but that doesn’t mean that it should be spent unwisely otherwise it adds up quickly. It seems unlikely that this would need a full time dev to operate and seems more like a “4 hour workweek” type business once it’s set up that would have pretty minimal maintenance, or a super bored developer waiting around for a bug to patch. Do you think you’ll drop the price once you no longer need a dev?

acdha 7y ago

That page should have some sort of indication that it's scrollable since browsers increasingly don't show visible scrollbars until you're already scrolling. Something like Bootstrap's scrollspy might be useful since it could also show you the sections further down before you scroll through the intermediate sections.

golem14 7y ago

Thanks. I had not noticed even though I scrolled to the bottom