[aetherspawn]

This is cool but you need to figure out how to add a free tier, for less than 5 boxes and 1 env or something like that. There’s no way we would spend this money unless we were boiled like a frog in a pot and just went with it because we didn’t want to go back.

And $500-1000/mo is way too much, that’s more than a 10 person company spends every month on their entire CRM.

By pricing yourselves so high what you’re telling people is hey we’re a startup and we don't expect to scale big, and what I’m thinking is hey maybe this is risky having our critical infra tied up with this startup.

[coryodaniel]

Appreciate the feedback! We actually just changed our pricing about a week ago. We used to do individual seats, but we found that smaller teams—especially those without a dedicated ops function—typically weren’t at the stage where they needed an API layer between devs and infrastructure.

For early-stage teams, a PaaS or ClickOps usually makes more sense. Massdriver really starts providing value when a team hits the point where devs need self-service, but ops still needs to enforce standards and visibility without becoming a bottleneck.

That said, we do have a free tier beyond the two-week trial for open-source projects, non-profits, and some partners. Happy to add you to it if you want to try it out—would love to be wrong about earlier-stage teams, but just haven’t seen it yet!