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by londons_explore 994 days ago
I run https://serverthiefbait.com/ and the highest plan is $900 (not recurring). However, nearly everyone who buys that plan seems to mail me with special requests, which I usually do for free but probably should switch to a 'contact sales' model and decide the price based on the customers needs.

It's usually things like "can you help us with automation to roll this out to every one of our users home directories", or "we want every wallet tagged with the computer name and path so we can respond quicker if theft is detected". Legit requests, but not features built into the built-in-a-weekend service.

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That's a really neat little business. I like it a lot.
This is such a good idea. I’m going to sign up!

You’ve got a tiny typo (“age” is listed twice) in your fourth FAQ:

age, software version, file format, age

The site is hosted on appengine and I decided that the (rather huge) effort google wants me to go through to redeploy now wasn't worth it for one typo.

If I ever add any features worth bragging about, I'll fix that and migrate off appengine all at the same time.

Same thing for https://uxwizz.com

I never wake up to a random Agency $1500 sale, all high paying customers send emails and discuss their use-case before.

Oh, and pretty interesting that your service looks like it would go well with customers self-hosting my platform.
Curious, who is your target audience? I can't figure out whether you're selling to the CEOs or the Engineering Managers. and how do you target them?
It's a weekend project... The target audience is anyone scared their private data isn't as safe as they hoped. From individuals, to sysadmins to CEO's.

Sure, it probably would have been better to make 3 services tailored to each of those 3 personas, but that is beyond the scope of a weekend project.

Putting crypto as bait. Damn that is a good idea.