Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by veggieWHITES 574 days ago
I was considering these guys the other day until I saw their pricing page: https://fly.io/pricing/

(There's not a single price on there, why even create the page?)

3 comments

There's a link to what appears to be the actual pricing page https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/

There's also a link to the pricing calculator https://fly.io/calculator

Is that calculator hourly or monthly?
It's right there: "Monthly Cost"
Literally says "Monthly Costs" in the green panel on the right that calculates the total.
OMG, that's hilarious. I use them, and I know what my prices are, but I'd never noticed that the page called pricing doesn't actually have any.
We've always had public pricing; you can't do a metered cloud provider without a rate sheet. But it's been part of our product documentation, rather than the front page of the website, until recently; there's a whole saga behind it, which gets into whether we offer "plans" or not, how support works, all that jazz, all of which kept us from putting together a marketing pricing page.
Yeah, I’m not trying to say you didn’t. After all, I wouldn’t have signed up just to find out the price. I just never noticed it wasn’t actually on the pricing page.
I'm overexplainey, because (looks around at whole thread). These aren't fun!

Anyways we've been dunking on ourselves for not having a proper pricing page longer than anyone else could have. :)

The prices are just one click deeper. Hardly a nefarious dark pattern.