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by Murkin 1537 days ago
Amazing project, only sad note is the monetization side is a bit neglected.

We were ready to pay for Sidekiq, but the pricing model was just off and we just used an OSS lib to patch the missing part.

Mike if you are here, might be worth to invest some time in pricing research, you could probably double your revenue.
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ed 1537 days ago
> the pricing model was just off

Out of curiosity (I also sell enterprise products) what would make the purchase a no-brainer? Quarterly payments? E.g. I’ve heard that ~$300 (ballpark) is the max amount an individual can spend without a review process. Is that what you mean?

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Murkin 1532 days ago
There were 3 plans offered, community, pro and enterprise. We only needed one feature that was sadly in the "enterprise" bucket.

Sadly that plan was very expensive, so ended up not paying anything and just getting the feature from OSS.

No the pricing, but rather the feature coupling to plans and no willingness to do any dynamic pricing.

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mperham 1537 days ago
I don’t really understand what you mean but I’d like to hear details.
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Murkin 1532 days ago
We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan.

And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive.

I reached out to ask if we can do any other payment scheme, or at least get startup discount to start using, but were declined.

We ended up using an OSS library for that part and even now what we grown, still don't pay for sidekiq. If it was part of Pro, or we had a 1 year discount for startups, we prob just kept on paying even now (that we can afford it).

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