Launch HN: Navattic (YC W21) – Shareable demos for selling your SaaS product

Thanks for the report! I'll fix this asap

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Very cool!

FYI, I would pay for this, but $8,400/yr. is a killer for a startup. You're leaving what might be a lot money on the table at the bottom that you could scoop up with graduated pricing. This might also protect you from competitors, because if you leave the low end open, you may get eaten by a copycat offering cheap/freemium. For example, Github vs. Gitlab and Mailchimp(freemium) vs. Constant Contact.

You've made something very cool that I think people will want, and this price point won't be crazy for enterprise folks. Great work!

Awesome! Very cool approach -- I've written a few little scripts that do something similar in fact in terms of serializing the DOM. Feedback:

We are actually working on a SaaS launch right now of a pretty bog-standard app. I was actually sold and ready to use Navattic from the landing page, but I was expecting a pricing model like Cypress.io, so I got some serious sticker shock. I feel your product is 80% of what we need, but we can get to 70% of what we need by just saving a few HTML pages and then using an off-the-shelf open source tour JS script (which is what we did in one case last week, and it took all of like 10 minutes). If we want a 100% interactive experience, it would again be just slightly more dev effort to create a new tenant in our demo database and sending the prospect an onboarding link, then just watching our existing analytics for usage. I guess this is all to say, I'd be okay with paying "pocket change" for a convenient platform with analytics for the same reason I like Cypress -- sure, I can set up an E2E dashboard with off-the-shelf FOSS libraries, but Cypress is more convenient at a reasonable cost -- but not $8k per year.

That said, I could see products with very broken multi-tenancy AND no automated provisioning finding this useful (and with deep pockets). I just wonder if are enough of these to be sustainable, since not only would they have to be broken in this way, but also the "fix" to multi-tenancy or automated provisioning would have to be a worse ROI, since these are typically already on "product roadmaps" anyway. Just my two cents, and I understand you might still be iterating on pricing. Regardless, a really cool product, congrats on the launch!

Thanks for the feedback! That makes total sense. Today we're working with slightly larger companies, but in the future we intend to roll out a pricing model that meets the needs of most SaaS companies. Thanks for sharing Cypress' model - it's an interesting one we'll explore we continue to think through pricing!