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Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by pdxandi »

This looks really nice and something I'd be interested in, but I'm wondering how you arrived at the pricing model. $49 for 100 conversations seems steep to me and not something I could afford for smaller projects.

So if I have 100 users who each have one conversation, is that considered 100 conversations? If I have two users talking with each other, is that one conversation? I looked through the FAQ but can't quite understand the pricing model.

Also, when I click on "We can't afford TalkJS" in your FAQ, it expands the answer for the question.

Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by cf21 »

pdxandi wrote: post #2

This looks really nice and something I'd be interested in, but I'm wondering how you arrived at the pricing model. $49 for 100 conversations seems steep to me and not something I could afford for smaller projects. So if I have 100 users who each have one conversation, is that considered 100 conversations? If I have two users talking with each other, is that one conversation? I looked through the FAQ but can't quite u…

You can read the last FAQ answer in the page source:

We love open source and community projects, so we have decided to make TalkJS entirely free for non-commercial purposes.

When you go live, there's a button you can click to let us know you're using TalkJS non-commercially, and you'll be able to go live without paying.

Note: The non-commercial TalkJS license includes no support. If need want the certainty of access to our great customer support, please become a paying customer.

Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by pdxandi »

cf21 wrote: post #3
pdxandi wrote: post #2

This looks really nice and something I'd be interested in, but I'm wondering how you arrived at the pricing model. $49 for 100 conversations seems steep to me and not something I could afford for smaller projects. So if I have 100 users who each have one conversation, is that considered 100 conversations? If I have two users talking with each other, is that one conversation? I looked through the FAQ but can't quite u…

You can read the last FAQ answer in the page source: We love open source and community projects, so we have decided to make TalkJS entirely free for non-commercial purposes. When you go live, there's a button you can click to let us know you're using TalkJS non-commercially, and you'll be able to go live without paying. Note: The non-commercial TalkJS license includes no support. If need want the certainty of access…

That was more feedback that the site's not working correctly. Since we're talking page source, I guess we might as well tell them the offending line is anchor tag referencing the wrong div `#question6-a` instead of `#question7-a`.

Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by joshschoen »

pdxandi wrote: post #4
cf21 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can read the last FAQ answer in the page source: We love open source and community projects, so we have decided to make TalkJS entirely free for non-commercial purposes. When you go live, there's a button you can click to let us know you're using TalkJS non-commercially, and you'll be able to go live without paying. Note: The non-commercial TalkJS license includes no support. If need want the certainty of access…

That was more feedback that the site's not working correctly. Since we're talking page source, I guess we might as well tell them the offending line is anchor tag referencing the wrong div `#question6-a` instead of `#question7-a`.

Hey! Joshua here, co-founder of TalkJS. Thanks for your feedback, you're right! Will fix asap.

Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by dvcc »

That pricing seems insane :o. Even on the lite setup, each conversation would need to have $2 in value, on the standard plan it would need $2.50 in value (I know there is an increase in features but an increase in price per conversation as well?). Although I am not quite sure what a conversation consists of -- it could be a chat between two people over any timespan, in which case it really isn't terrible?

Re: Show HN: TalkJS – Integrated messaging for web and mobile products

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Post by joshschoen »

pdxandi wrote: post #2

This looks really nice and something I'd be interested in, but I'm wondering how you arrived at the pricing model. $49 for 100 conversations seems steep to me and not something I could afford for smaller projects. So if I have 100 users who each have one conversation, is that considered 100 conversations? If I have two users talking with each other, is that one conversation? I looked through the FAQ but can't quite u…

Thank you! To answer the user/conversation question:

> two users talking with each other, is that one conversation?

Yes.

And thanks for asking, this means it's not clear and we will have to add this.

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