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Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified?

Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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post #34

Another alternative is [PlantUML]( http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy ) which also has sequence, class ... diagrams

I haven't tried an exhaustive list of UML and diagramming tools, but every other year I try a new one.

PlantUML was one of the first I've ever tried, and nothing beats it so far. Sometimes it's not as flexible as I would want it to be, but maybe that's why I like it so much? I think I've almost learned to use it to only care about being able to express what I want to, and if it doesn't look exactly how I want it to look, but it still lets me express what I want to, I'm happy enough.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#43

How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified? Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.

Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to!

The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited)

As for the $100/mo - we do have business/enterprise customers who find lots of value in it. I guess the price has been initially verified by the market so should I justify it?

I guess I can justify the price by saying that the project has taken numerous hours of engineering, testing and experimenting. I think this is natural in pricing models that bigger customers pay more.

If you can do the same in a week than good for you.

Peace and take care :)

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#44

How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified? Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.

I like it when developers charge real money for the products they build. Are there competitors that do this in the same way?

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#45
post #43

How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified? Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.

Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to! The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited) As for the $100/mo - we do have business…

Also, if this product can save more than 3 engineering hours per month for your whole company than I'd say the self-hosted product is totally worth it. Simple math. :)

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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post #45
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to! The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited) As for the $100/mo - we do have business…

Also, if this product can save more than 3 engineering hours per month for your whole company than I'd say the self-hosted product is totally worth it. Simple math. :)

If only companies thought that way. It's all about budgets.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

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post #38
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Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.

I hope your pricing model ($100-$300/month) is meant as a joke, and you're not really serious about it. It's extremely expensive. I can drag and drop text boxes in google docs just fine and it's not costing me a dime. The added productivity would be worth it if I was doing this all day long, but it's not the case (as a software engineer).

Ignore this feedback. You have validated that customers will pay what you're charging, which means what they're getting is less valuable than what they're paying. Keep it up!

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#49
post #43

How do you arrive at the pricing model for this? $100 per month $300 per month? How is that justified? Also how do you win against competitors? Is this project something that couldn't be duplicated in a week or so? No disrespect intended, maybe there is more to it that I'm seeing.

Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to! The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited) As for the $100/mo - we do have business…

how much time you put in to it really doesn't matter.

the 'justification' is people paying for it. if they find value, they pay, there's the justification.

Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle

#50
post #38
post #2

Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.

I hope your pricing model ($100-$300/month) is meant as a joke, and you're not really serious about it. It's extremely expensive. I can drag and drop text boxes in google docs just fine and it's not costing me a dime. The added productivity would be worth it if I was doing this all day long, but it's not the case (as a software engineer).

You're welcome to use the free trial version and I can assure you that the SaaS paid version will be very affordable.

As for $100/$300 pricing, these are on premise business/enterprise versions meant to be used by bigger teams where data confidentiality is crucial.

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