[kraken-io]

> Frankly, I don't understand how anyone would want to pay USD 250 per year to get a service which albeit behind a beautiful website just can't match the experience and control that you get when running things locally.

People not wanting to run things locally are exactly why we decided to launch the Kraken service in the first place - just upload and forget, let someone else deal with the complexities and use their resources. We actually decided to go commercial in response to a ludicrous number of feedback emails we were getting asking for this. It got to the point where we decided to found a company and make it happen, as it just made sense. Moreover, it's really difficult working out a pricing strategy for a product such as an image optimization API, and expect to make amendments to our pricing strategy in response to feedback and other learnings.

[radiospiel]

Thanks for the reply. As someone being into photography I would like to have the functionality that kraken provides on my local machine; even saving 10% on my huge pile of digital pictures would help me a lot; given that my machines run exclusively on SSDs, where storage space still is quite expensive.

In saying that: if you would build a downloadable app which looks great and does what you are doing right now on your servers I would be willing to spend. On the other hand, I would not upload my pics to any service just to get them back smaller; it just takes too much time.

But I agree that your biz model probably does not target someone like me; good riddance to you!