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by inthewoods 1714 days ago
Usegravity looks interesting - but the pricing page really made me stop taking it seriously.
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I'm the founder of usegravity.app

I've been dedicated to this product for years and provide weekly updates, daily support and video tutorials. I can't do that for free/cheap hence the price. If I charged less, it simply wouldn't be sustainable for me to provide the current level of service and maintenance.

Also, paying a developer to build the same features and invest the time that I have is going to cost a heck of a lot more than $995. It's not just the development hours either, Gravity has been battle tested in over 300+ commercial products and iterated on hundreds of times to incorporate the feedback from those deployments in the field.

It wasn't the pricing model - when I went to the website originally all the pricing levels were the same - it looked like a template that hadn't been updated. I have no issue with charging for value.
Why? I know we live in a world of $0.99 apps, $12 training courses, and $15 web templates, but their pricing is still many times less than what you pay developer(s) to build the same.