Web Services Our Startup Relies On Every Day

Post by petenixey » Tue, Jan 25, 2011, 9:24 PM UTC

pwim wrote: post #45

petenixey wrote: post #30

I'll second that Xero is an excellent service and it really doesn't get as much press as it deserves in the states. They're very easy to use and have done an heroic job building out both the software and support. HOWEVER, their entry-pricing is incredibly irritating. For $228/year you can't add any more than 5 invoices or reconcile more than 20 lines of bank statement per month. For the entire price of quickbooks eve…

But for only $29/month you can. How much is your time worth? If the service saves you even an hour per month, surely it is worth it.

A price should either be "cheap and cheerful" or "real and worthwhile". $60/year for a single company is cheap and cheerful, $228/year is very much "Real and Worthwhile".

$228/year may be reasonable for a "limited" piece of software but it is too much for crippled software. Make it $60, make it work or take it away, it's an unnecessarily irritating package.

Post by robgwin » Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #3

I'm not convinced about the need for SendGrid. Learning to set up an email server isn't that hard in this day and age, and we seem to get very decent deliverability with our own SMTP server - and don't pay a penny for any emails sent. I'm planning to build an email subscription feature for swombat.com soon, and was looking at options like SendGrid, but I just can't justify the cost. When you send people a sign-up con…

This isn't a technical question, it's an economics question. If you would rather put in effort than dollars, then do it yourself, and it will work great for a while. But if your business takes off, you will accumulate email-related problems like bacteria, and suddenly that $20/month starts to sound reeal worth it.

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