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Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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Re: Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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Post by asantalo »

About eight weeks ago I hopped on here and announced 8base to HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update.

Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Thanks Albert

Re: Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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Post by marklyck »

I'm loving 8base so far!

Best UI/UX in a Backend-as-a-service I've ever seen.

Happy to see the new $49/m plan! It's a nice step when you outgrow the Hobby plan, but not having to go straight to "enterprise-level"

PS. The support is probably the best customer support I've ever seen!

They actually listen to customer feedback as well. I'm thoroughly impressed by 8base!

Excited to see what features you add in the future!!!

Re: Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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Post by asantalo »

marklyck wrote: post #3

I'm loving 8base so far! Best UI/UX in a Backend-as-a-service I've ever seen. Happy to see the new $49/m plan! It's a nice step when you outgrow the Hobby plan, but not having to go straight to "enterprise-level" PS. The support is probably the best customer support I've ever seen! They actually listen to customer feedback as well. I'm thoroughly impressed by 8base! Excited to see what features you add in the future!…

Thanks, Mark. Yes, the $49 plan was really needed as the step from $8 to $149 was just too big of a leap.

Re: Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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Post by sebscholl »

dosh1965 wrote: post #5

This move to freemium pricing is a great match for JAMstack development cycle with other best-of-breed tools. It helps knowing you won't hit a pricing cliff in the midst of experimentation and growing your app via HOBBYIST to DEVELOPER plans. Way to go 8base!

Thanks, dosh! We're super focused on building better JAMstack tooling :)
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