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by juliansimioni 2441 days ago
This is really great, and gives me something to look forward to.

Two years ago I started a company with a friend, and we are _nearly_ at the point where our SaaS covers all our expenses. We do consulting to make up the rest, which is not bad at all, but of course it would be nice if it was completely optional.

I realized reading this post that I've definitely been focused on financial goals for the last few months. It wears on you, and it's not the best long term motivation.

Our dream has always been to be able to make our software better for a living, but it's definitely easier to do that once the financial side is taken care of :)

Sidenote, if anyone is looking for excellent geocoding with autocomplete, give us a try over at https://geocode.earth.

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$200/mo is quite a lot for "basic". I could see myself doing 2k or even 20k requests per month, but nowhere near 200k. If there were a $20/mo option (or maybe even $50/mo) I might consider it. But then of course you have to deal with 10x of small-time users like me, who have limited resources and may have problems getting set up. So it may not be worth it for you.
We might add a smaller plan it someday, but you're right. There are enough businesses that need that much geocoding, and it's much less work to support 1 $200/mo customer than 10 $20/mo.

Setting our lowest plan to $200/month was very intentional and has served us well.