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by RushPL 3500 days ago
Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to!

The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited)

As for the $100/mo - we do have business/enterprise customers who find lots of value in it. I guess the price has been initially verified by the market so should I justify it?

I guess I can justify the price by saying that the project has taken numerous hours of engineering, testing and experimenting. I think this is natural in pricing models that bigger customers pay more.

If you can do the same in a week than good for you.

Peace and take care :)

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Sorry I wasn't questioning your ethics. I meant how do you justify the strategy that it will be a successful business model, or what was your thought process in coming to that price.

I absolutely support you charging as much as people will pay! It sounds like you have already started to prove the model. Wish you success.

Also, if this product can save more than 3 engineering hours per month for your whole company than I'd say the self-hosted product is totally worth it. Simple math. :)
If only companies thought that way. It's all about budgets.
how much time you put in to it really doesn't matter.

the 'justification' is people paying for it. if they find value, they pay, there's the justification.