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Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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Typeform costs $83 for 10,000 responses[1](it's reliable, been around for almost a decade, used by leading companies around the world and it provides way more features than this) where as snoopforms will cost $200 for the same number of responses. That is more than 200% markup. I am merely comparing prices here. [1] https://www.typeform.com/pricing/

You are absolutely right and we are aware of this as we calculated it through. Pricing an OS project isn't easy and we will introduce scaled prices per submission e.g. 500-2.000 -> 0,02$, 2.000-10.000 -> 0,01$ and > 10.000 -> 0,005$ or so. We just didnt want to make it too complicated early on.

That makes sense. All the best. I will definitely recommend Snoopforms to people I know. I generally self-host whenever I can and I will self-host this when I need this in future. I hope I can still pay one-time fee down the line when I need it/self-host to support the project. Thanks

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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This is very important. I'm rather averse to signing up for paid service which is only limited by the option I provide for payments. It took me years to be willing to put a service on autopay which is merely variable, such as a power bill.

So ideally, we have: - free plan no CC needed (e.g. 100 submissions) - extended free plan with CC (e.g. 500 submissions) - paid plan with cost control (e.g. don't spend more than 25$) Would that alleviate your doubts?

Cost control is important, but I appreciate that structure. I skipped all services like this because it costed me less to have a dynamic website hosted on digital ocean than a static website with a form service.

With this service that is pay-per-use, I can finally "afford it". Thank you!

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