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It's nice that you shared the reasons for using the picodollar, but I'd never buy your product because it's not blatantly obvious how much it costs. No offense
by nkohari 17y ago
It's nice that you shared the reasons for using the picodollar, but I'd never buy your product because it's not blatantly obvious how much it costs. No offense intended.
- cperciva 17y agoit's not blatantly obvious how much it costs The front page of the tarsnap website says Storage: 300 picodollars / byte-month ($0.30 / GB-month) Bandwidth: 300 picodollars / byte ($0.30 / GB) Even if you don't know what the pico- prefix means, I'm not sure how you could be confused by the $/GB pricing...
- moe 17y agoIt's still confusing and redundant. Just write $0.30 / GB and that's it. Nobody cares if they will be paying 5 cent or 3,789 cent a month for their small-scale backups. Also a little javascript calculator, right there on the frontpage, would be a nice gimmick.
- shrughes 17y agoIt's still confusing and redundant. Just write $0.30 / GB and that's it. Edit: Okay, $0.30 / GB / month
- moe 17y agoWell, $.30 / GB / Month, to be precise. The "storage over time"-part is just very hard to communicate in a single sentence. Hence the javascript calculator. Give them a small box where they can tack in GB's and number of days and see for themselves. Just avoid confronting your potential customer with terms he has never heard. "Don't make me think" applies here.
- dpapathanasiou 17y agoFWIW, I would re-order those terms to show $0.30 / GB on top, with the picodollar equivalent underneath, inside parenthesis. BTW, since your service is command line only, are you targeting only programmers?
- cperciva 17y agoare you targeting only programmers? No. I haven't extensively interviewed Tarsnap users, but my impression is that most fall more into the category of "sysadmin" than "programmer".
- mahmud 17y agoSysadmins are programmers "waitressing" between auditions.
- dpapathanasiou 17y agoAny plans to add a gui? The command-line interface is probably limiting the potential market you could reach.
- cperciva 17y agoAny plans to add a gui? At some point, yes.