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37signals Once Product Announcement
- jbverschoor 3y agoThe first product was 'leaked' during this week's interview. I'll try not to spill the beans
- mtmail 3y agoThe interview is over an hour. On Twitter/X viewers say it'll be a Slack competitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWsdUkQ_-0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWsdUkQ_-0
- wmf 3y agoA Slack clone sounds weird given that there are multiple open source versions already. Paying never is even better than paying once!
- webmaven 3y agoI guess how good the deal is depends on whether the "pay once" offering includes perpetual hosting. Plenty of folks aren't willing to self-host services if they can help it, yet aren't satisfied with "Freemium" offerings (many of which tilt their funnel strongly toward the "-ium" end of the spectrum), nor are willing to pay "enterprise" per-seat rates in perpetuity. Pay once, use forever (or at least as long as the company exists) with an open source escape hatch could be a successful (or at least sustainable) model.
- wmf 3y agoThey were pretty clear that you have to host it yourself. Lifetime SaaS plans tend to be quite expensive (WordPress is $38K IIRC).
- rambambram 3y agoReally? I submitted this and didn't search online for any clues. My first guess for their first ONCE product was an IDE. They happen to scratch their own itch, an IDE is something you install on your computer (usually) so it fits the 'pay once' model, and to me it seemed that DHH might have liked that. On the other hand, it might be the wrong target audience for their company.
- jbverschoor 3y agoRemember that one of their first apps was campfire, and that was a chat app
- rambambram 3y agoI remember, but I couldn't see them going back to that, so to speak.