Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address
by encoderer on Saturday August 06, 2016 @06:17PM
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Hey Ryan, I applaud the free tier and think it's important, but I'd caution that it can be awfully hard to make a business-sustaining revenue on $10/mo. I think it's smart to start low and compete on price, but I think there's value here, it's why there are larger competitors in the space, and if you can climb that value chain and raise prices along the way you will be better off for it.
From a merchandising POV, you could consider moving up-market by building new more powerful features and giving them only to the $25 plan. Then, rename the plans to match who you expect to buy them. People identify with who they are more naturally than they do a number of requests per month.
Also, congrats on shipping.
Edit: Also, pre-fill the form with the visitors own IP -- or better yet just display the results?
Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address
by fragfester on Saturday August 06, 2016 @08:50PM
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Ya this is really great info. Thanks for the feedback. We are still looking at pricing as this is only day one but we're on it.
This one I'm moving up the list - I like the idea "better yet just display the results of visitors IP"
Thats the best answer. The secondary part is we want a simple way for any dev off the street to integrate with api.fraudguard.io in 5 minutes. Imagine you are a small company and you want to limit back office access to you CMS to only IPs outside of Germany. That takes just a couple minutes. Or you want to allow back office access to you CMS from everywhere but you want to decrease the session timeout to only 30 minutes if the originating IP is a tor node or public proxy, etc.
We just got out of beta (literally last night) but so far thats the majority of use cases that we've seen so far.