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by flaque 615 days ago
Hi! I run sfcompute.

We don't have a limited number of slots!

We just go down a lot. It's VERY beta at the moment; we literally take the whole thing down about once a week. So if we know of some major problem, or we're down, we just don't let people on (since they'll have a bad experience).

You're right though that the prices are probably lower because of this. That's why we have a thing on our website that says "*Prices are from the sfcompute private beta and don’t represent normal market conditions."

If you'd like on anyway, I can let you on, just email me at evan at sfcompute, but it may literally break!

1 comments

If I may recommend: put a note where people will see those prices so that they understand those prices are unlikely to remain. If the outcome of your current UX is people thinking you're a scam, you have a problem that will last as you start to scale. It's hard to measure now, but it's harder to fix later.

Also, I'm really impressed at how great your replies about your product are! You're a gem.

> put a note where people will see those prices so that they understand those prices are unlikely to remain.

Yup, shall do!

> Also, I'm really impressed at how great your replies about your product are! You're a gem.

Thank you! :D