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part of getting people to pay for it is pricing it properly. No business in their right mind would trust a tool that costs 49/mo for 50k users.

johnwheeler 7y ago
Yeah because you know, NOW really is the best time to prepare themselves for being the next Salesforce or Office 365. Don't you think it's a just little premature for that scale of thinking? I mean, they just got the thing posted on HN.
- behringer 7y ago
  It's not premature. It sets expectations. If you can't set expectations for the buyer, they just won't buy.
- GordonS 7y ago
  I think there is somewhere in between a startup and Salesforce size - at this pricing, even small businesses are going to be wary. $49/m is just so obviously underpriced that it rings alarm bells - how could that possibly be sustainable, will it still be around in 6 months?
- paggle 7y ago
  It’s not that - it’s that as a 6-person team who is a target customer, I don’t want to get a bunch of my data locked in to a system that’s not priced to sustain the company.
  - drikerf 7y ago
    Hey! The company is just me and I'm not trying to land huge customers. Therefore I need no marketing or customer support team. I'm building it for myself and other small businesses. I think I can make that sustainable. I also have no interest in being acquired so you won't have to worry about that either :).
  - antonkm 7y ago
    I mean Basecamp is $99/mo. And it has a bunch more features. I don't know about you but I'd say they run a sustainable business. CRMs are usually ridiculously overpriced.
- dewey 7y ago
  You don’t have to build the feature, just add a “contact us” button for > users. Building enterprise grade features is a pre-mature optimizations. Setting expectations and putting people in the right funnel is not. Especially if it’s a cheap change like adding a button.
TomMarius 7y ago
Is that their target market?

johnwheeler 7y ago

Yeah because you know, NOW really is the best time to prepare themselves for being the next Salesforce or Office 365. Don't you think it's a just little premature for that scale of thinking? I mean, they just got the thing posted on HN.

behringer 7y ago
It's not premature. It sets expectations. If you can't set expectations for the buyer, they just won't buy.
GordonS 7y ago
I think there is somewhere in between a startup and Salesforce size - at this pricing, even small businesses are going to be wary. $49/m is just so obviously underpriced that it rings alarm bells - how could that possibly be sustainable, will it still be around in 6 months?
paggle 7y ago
It’s not that - it’s that as a 6-person team who is a target customer, I don’t want to get a bunch of my data locked in to a system that’s not priced to sustain the company.
- drikerf 7y ago
  Hey! The company is just me and I'm not trying to land huge customers. Therefore I need no marketing or customer support team. I'm building it for myself and other small businesses. I think I can make that sustainable. I also have no interest in being acquired so you won't have to worry about that either :).
- antonkm 7y ago
  I mean Basecamp is $99/mo. And it has a bunch more features. I don't know about you but I'd say they run a sustainable business. CRMs are usually ridiculously overpriced.
dewey 7y ago
You don’t have to build the feature, just add a “contact us” button for > users. Building enterprise grade features is a pre-mature optimizations. Setting expectations and putting people in the right funnel is not. Especially if it’s a cheap change like adding a button.

TomMarius 7y ago

Is that their target market?