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Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes

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Re: Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes

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Post by throwoutway »

nemothekid wrote: post #12

The price changes here are worrying - I just started planning on how I'd like to switch our frontend applications to be hosted on Netlify and now the pricing is changing from under me. I can understand charging for developers who trigger deploys; but the whole "teams with more than 7 members must upgrade to enterprise" seems ludicrous. When did 7 people become an enterprise? The last thing I want is to get a 10x bill…

I think it’s likely that they just figured out how much revenue/profit they wanted, and then applied the math to their customer base and calculated 7 as the magical number.

Re: Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes

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Post by zoover2020 »

benmanns wrote: post #7
bombcar wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many many SaaS products have a cliff, usually from "free" to "first cost" and that cliff can be pretty substantial. But going straight from "free" to "enterprise" is steep even for a SaaS. Usually there's a "teams" level between.

Yeah, and they can be stupid expensive for small side projects with a handful of contributors. If you want a Netlify site with a background function that serves 10 visitors a day with 3 people occasionally logging in or pushing code, you pay $57/mo to execute $0.0001 worth of Lambda functions. Maybe it's worth it if things take off, but before then you're paying a lot for very little. So, you host on a DigitalOcean d…

Vercel is a much better deal. Moved to there 3 years ago and never looked back
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