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I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/ https://fly.io/pricing/ (There's not a single price on there

I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/ https://fly.io/pricing/ (There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

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schmichael 2y ago
The prices are just one click deeper. Hardly a nefarious dark pattern.
rascul 2y ago
There's a link to what appears to be the actual pricing page https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ There's also a link to the pricing calculator https://fly.io/calculator https://fly.io/calculator
- totetsu 2y ago
  Is that calculator hourly or monthly?
  - radicalriddler 2y ago
    Literally says "Monthly Costs" in the green panel on the right that calculates the total.
  - eviks 2y ago
    It's right there: "Monthly Cost"
- veggieWHITES 2y ago
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  - tptacek 2y ago
    LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide? Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.
    - veggieWHITES 2y ago
      Psychoanalysis? This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices. You're literally the only GPU provider that does that. I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.
      - akerl_ 2y ago
        You didn’t present a consumer perspective, you offered your hot take on why the company has set up the site in the way they did.
Aeolun 2y ago
OMG, that's hilarious. I use them, and I know what my prices are, but I'd never noticed that the page called pricing doesn't actually have any.
- tptacek 2y ago
  We've always had public pricing; you can't do a metered cloud provider without a rate sheet. But it's been part of our product documentation, rather than the front page of the website, until recently; there's a whole saga behind it, which gets into whether we offer "plans" or not, how support works, all that jazz, all of which kept us from putting together a marketing pricing page.
  - Aeolun 2y ago
    Yeah, I’m not trying to say you didn’t. After all, I wouldn’t have signed up just to find out the price. I just never noticed it wasn’t actually on the pricing page.
    - tptacek 2y ago
      I'm overexplainey, because (looks around at whole thread). These aren't fun! Anyways we've been dunking on ourselves for not having a proper pricing page longer than anyone else could have. :)

I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/ https://fly.io/pricing/ (There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

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schmichael 2y ago

The prices are just one click deeper. Hardly a nefarious dark pattern.

rascul 2y ago

There's a link to what appears to be the actual pricing page https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ There's also a link to the pricing calculator https://fly.io/calculator https://fly.io/calculator

totetsu 2y ago
Is that calculator hourly or monthly?
- radicalriddler 2y ago
  Literally says "Monthly Costs" in the green panel on the right that calculates the total.
- eviks 2y ago
  It's right there: "Monthly Cost"
veggieWHITES 2y ago
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- tptacek 2y ago
  LOL. If you're not charging us for it, is there any other psychoanalysis you might be willing to provide? Alternatively: sometimes, a weirdly-positioned pricing page is just a weirdly-positioned pricing page.
  - veggieWHITES 2y ago
    Psychoanalysis? This is a technology review and discussion website. It's poor design to put a link to a pricing page and not list any prices. You're literally the only GPU provider that does that. I was trying to give you my perspective as a consumer since I know you frequent these forums but I apologize if I have offended you in some way.
    - akerl_ 2y ago
      You didn’t present a consumer perspective, you offered your hot take on why the company has set up the site in the way they did.

Aeolun 2y ago

OMG, that's hilarious. I use them, and I know what my prices are, but I'd never noticed that the page called pricing doesn't actually have any.

tptacek 2y ago
We've always had public pricing; you can't do a metered cloud provider without a rate sheet. But it's been part of our product documentation, rather than the front page of the website, until recently; there's a whole saga behind it, which gets into whether we offer "plans" or not, how support works, all that jazz, all of which kept us from putting together a marketing pricing page.
- Aeolun 2y ago
  Yeah, I’m not trying to say you didn’t. After all, I wouldn’t have signed up just to find out the price. I just never noticed it wasn’t actually on the pricing page.
  - tptacek 2y ago
    I'm overexplainey, because (looks around at whole thread). These aren't fun! Anyways we've been dunking on ourselves for not having a proper pricing page longer than anyone else could have. :)