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by michaelpb 1919 days ago
Awesome! Very cool approach -- I've written a few little scripts that do something similar in fact in terms of serializing the DOM. Feedback:

We are actually working on a SaaS launch right now of a pretty bog-standard app. I was actually sold and ready to use Navattic from the landing page, but I was expecting a pricing model like Cypress.io, so I got some serious sticker shock. I feel your product is 80% of what we need, but we can get to 70% of what we need by just saving a few HTML pages and then using an off-the-shelf open source tour JS script (which is what we did in one case last week, and it took all of like 10 minutes). If we want a 100% interactive experience, it would again be just slightly more dev effort to create a new tenant in our demo database and sending the prospect an onboarding link, then just watching our existing analytics for usage. I guess this is all to say, I'd be okay with paying "pocket change" for a convenient platform with analytics for the same reason I like Cypress -- sure, I can set up an E2E dashboard with off-the-shelf FOSS libraries, but Cypress is more convenient at a reasonable cost -- but not $8k per year.

That said, I could see products with very broken multi-tenancy AND no automated provisioning finding this useful (and with deep pockets). I just wonder if are enough of these to be sustainable, since not only would they have to be broken in this way, but also the "fix" to multi-tenancy or automated provisioning would have to be a worse ROI, since these are typically already on "product roadmaps" anyway. Just my two cents, and I understand you might still be iterating on pricing. Regardless, a really cool product, congrats on the launch!

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Thanks for the feedback! That makes total sense. Today we're working with slightly larger companies, but in the future we intend to roll out a pricing model that meets the needs of most SaaS companies. Thanks for sharing Cypress' model - it's an interesting one we'll explore we continue to think through pricing!