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Genuine question. Why would people pay for the pro version if they could just host it for themselves? Does the pro version have some proprietary stuff which wou

• vinaypai 4y ago
  I can easily envision a non-technical person spending a few bucks for this because they don't know how to set things up without help. I don't see that working at $99/month though. It's WAY more than most bit.ly plans for a vastly more limited product.
  • steventey 4y ago
    That's a great point, thanks for mentioning that! I'm gonna do some pricing research over the next couple of months to see what the optimal pricing is for a tool like this! :)
• dspillett 4y ago
  The usual use case for paying for something you could self-host, is that you don't have to self-host and therefore manage it. Someone else deals with installation, updates, and ongoing availability. For something like this there is perhaps extra factors like someone else worrying about abuse by malicious users and the resulting risk of being black-listed by spam filters.
• sosborn 4y ago
  At my work, getting approval to pay for this would take about 5 minutes. On the other hand, if I had to provision a server to self-host, I might be lucky to have this done in the next six weeks, depending on how IT is feeling when I ask.
  • throitallaway 4y ago
    Here we'd also have to go though a vendor review (security, legal, etc.)