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by brentis 1109 days ago
Came here to see comments about pricing. I think inline with others.Expected a nominal 1 time fee. Probably up to $60. $30/mo is more than Photoshop.
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A comment to address the pricing that everyone is complaining about:

A web designer/developer in a decent, profitable company is probably getting paid $100k at least.

Assuming 250 working days a year with 8 hours a day of paid time, that's roughly $0.8/minute.

If this tool saves that person 90 seconds a day finding and tweaking things in a design then it's saving more than $30/month worth of their time.

It's quite cheap.

The fact Adobe charge waaaaaaay too little for PS is another matter entirely.

> A web designer/developer in a decent, profitable company is probably getting paid $100k at least.

In the US maybe. Definitely not here in Italy and probably in most of Europe.

Even if someone is paid 1/3 of the US wage it only means you need to save 3* as much time. It's still quite cheap.
> If this tool saves that person 90 seconds a day finding and tweaking things in a design then it's saving more than $30/month worth of their time.

As pointed out elsewhere, it's saving the business more than $30/m, not the developer.

The developer doesn't get to pocket the savings. Their reward for "saving" 4 hours a week is an extra 4 hours of work per week.