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by mbalex99 1395 days ago
Regarding pricing, we are actively working on a general available pricing for our entire system. This is going to take us a couple of quarters to operationalize everything; we have a pretty good idea of what the pricing will be for the everyone-version.

Right now we have our enterprise pricing nicely figured out. This might sound a bit strange but unlike many startups, we actually went to market backwards by focusing on the enterprise first. When we started the company, we had this crazy idea that we could build a distributed, query replicated, database that could sync over a mesh network. No one had ever built anything like this and we had some skepticism that such a product could actually generate revenue to create a sustainable business. Eventually, most infrastructure or database startups survive in large part to enterprise deployments. So we sought enterprise use cases and dollars first. And I have to say that was totally worth it and we've been rapidly gaining customers here.

However, in our hearts, we are all frontend web, mobile, IoT app developers that all wanted to build collaborative apps like iMessage, Figma, Miro, Trello that had offline, sync, and conflict resolution capabilities out of the box. Once we make a couple of product and ops advancements over the next could of quarters, we will have very clear pricing like any other service out there. So just hang tight!

Want us to get to pricing faster? Definitely recommend some of your infrastructure, kubernetes, and rust distributed systems developers to join us. We are hiring hardcore!