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Hey! I'm the creator (fork-er?) of Plain. I have mixed feelings too — if all this does is help spur some new activity around Django, that would be a good outcome!

Lol, that's why I added the "or watch the video / read the Forge start page". 50% off right now though! Still thinking through some of these things. Not sure how to let people "try…

> your promo material sucks Well put. Yeah I'm not 100% sure yet what level of Django experience is required to use (or at least appreciate) Forge? Should you have used Django at l…

I haven't actually tried Pegasus, so I can't say exactly. In a lot of ways I'm sure they're similar. Some differences with Forge might be the removal of options: - Pegasus looks li…

Yep. Don't know if this will become an issue or not, but it is unfortunate in retrospect.

Yeah I could see that argument too. Lots of hard decisions and interesting questions in terms of how to navigate what people want/need. Honestly I don't envy their situation. It ha…

Kudos to czue and Pegasus! I haven't used it before, but if that's a better fit for what you want, go buy it! Honestly I feel a little weird "competing" directly with something lik…

All good ideas — thanks for taking the time. I've been thinking about some of these but not all. On the 1 customer vs 100, I totally lean towards the 100. I have a blend of these w…

Don't have any plans for Wagtail or hosting, but those are interesting questions. I'll have to give it some thought.

Good point. Still trying to figure out who is interested, but I'll probably add a student/educational discount too. (If anybody sees this and wants that, let me know.)

https://bullettrain.co/pricing is another example ($1450 one-time + $550/year). > Maybe it’s more for people who are about to start a second revenue project. I do think this is an …

I have some regrets on this. I sort of landed on the name and then learned about Laravel Forge. But went with it anyway.

I could absolutely see the "borrow some code" angle. Especially if you have an existing/established project where it would be pretty hard to integrate everything anyway. $1000 is n…

> Things like django-coookiecutter are great, but they only really cover the project structure. This is an important point, for me anyway. Yeah $1000 can be a lot for an individual…

Yeah I've been considering that. Probably more likely that I'll lower the price, learn some things, then ramp it up. Free feels hard to reverse and the difference between "I wouldn…

Also this > Things like django-coookiecutter are great, but they only really cover the project structure. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30781528

Thanks. Completely agree on the contrast to rails... This has been a super interesting process for myself in thinking through "what are the parts of Django that are either way too …

Thanks! I found Reactive somehow yesterday — haven't looked closely at it yet but I will. Always cool to see more stuff in the ecosystem. But yeah, personally I feel like there are…

Might be too high — not sure yet. It is partially based off of https://bullettrain.co/pricing#now (and I know they're making that work... but there are some differences). > why wou…

> Like others I also wonder who's the intended audience. Me too — trying to figure that out! > but that project needs to be basically non existent while also being somewhat serious…

Wish I could figure out how to do a free trial. I've obviously considered whether the whole thing should be free and open-source in the first place, but getting paid to work on thi…

100%. Still working through it, but I think the question (or one of them) to me is whether you can lower the bar to where non-experts can get off the ground with some "expert" opin…

Thanks. Yeah, I agree with that. I'm honestly still trying to figure out exactly who it's for and the whole free/paid/price equation. Individuals? Agencies? Beginners? People with …