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The smallest thing is $10/month, that's way too expensive. I think you might get more traction if you did more to explain exactly what someone would be getting
by hardwaresofton 12y ago
The smallest thing is $10/month, that's way too expensive.
I think you might get more traction if you did more to explain exactly what someone would be getting that price BEFORE you showed them the price.
Right now, the feature area (below the pricing), is so sparse and all over the place that it's a chore to read.
It seems like you're going to completely manage the database side? if so, then maybe you should say something like "we'll be your database guys". If it's not that, and it's just hosting the database/making sure it's up then have some sort of message specific to that?
- mrweasel 12y agoI think $10/month is pretty cheap, assuming the service is good. We're so use to getting a "free tier" or paying for some obscure gigabyte-hour / dingo-dyno tier. I like that these guys are upfront with that you need to pay, and having easy to understand prices.
- pjlegato 12y agoHi, Database Labs founder here. We indeed are very upfront and transparent -- no hidden costs, and no teaser free tier followed by a massive price jackup once you actually get any significant traction. Free tiers also invite abuse by shady actors (spammers and so on) and tire-kickers who generate support load but don't ever actually buy anything, which we just don't have the resources to deal with yet, as a small company. It seems so far that $10 is a reasonably low price point for trying it out that people are willing to give it a shot, and it filters out a lot of the bad actors.. maybe when we're larger, we'll revisit the free tier idea.
- hardwaresofton 12y agoYeah so I didn't mean that you should sell it for free, but the issue here is that I an easily rent a VPS (and I do) with better specs for cheaper and it's not super clear exactly what you're offering on top outside of "VPSes to run database x" on.