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by stavros 924 days ago
I'll say what I said downthread to someone who made something similar: This costs more than twice as much as GitHub, does it provide twice the value?
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GitHub's code review is pretty mediocre imo... just left Meta and I miss phabricator. I'm interested to see new stuff, hope I can get off the waitlist!
I definitely agree there, I just don't know if a tool that adds a feature is worth twice as much as the tool that the feature is being added to.
We agree! Thanks for adding yourself to the waitlist, I'll make sure you're granted access
> This costs more than twice as much as GitHub, does it provide twice the value?

This is not always the right question to ask. One can argue that both products are too cheap with respect to the value they offer, so the relative value between the two is irrelevant.

In other words, if you can afford $X and $2X without even thinking, and if you think even $10X would be a fair value for either, it doesn't matter if the $2X product offers only 20% more value. You would simply want to get the best, even if it's a diminishing return. I believe $9/month/developer can be classified in this category if you are actually doing code reviews.

Fair question. We're aiming to provide enough value for the price we'll ultimate target. We aren't charging yet, but wanted to provide people with some of our rough thoughts on pricing since it's a common question. For now, it's free for folks who want to kick the tires.
I'll probably try it, but there's no way I can get our finance department to pay $900/mo for something we aren't sure if we're going to use. Maybe pricing it as "Free for the first five users, $9/mo/user afterwards" would be much better aligned with the customers' incentives.
Agreed, that's a tough pill to swallow. We envisioned trial period to let people make up there mind, but free for the first few users is another route. We'll noodle it when we loop back to pricing. Appreciate the feedback, it's helpful.