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Re:Apple Sign In by golem14 on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:57PM (#20086865)
From the web page, I cannot tell what pricing is going to be - looks like you go out of your way to not scare off potential users. I can't find pricing information at all via Google searches, either.

That's something I really dislike. Perhaps it's a necessary evil.

Re:Apple Sign In by albertgoeswoof on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:01PM (#20086918)
It’s at the bottom of the landing page: https://idbloc.co/#pricing

The goal is to explain the concept ahead of the pricing as I think it’s quite novel to most users.

Re:Apple Sign In by acdha on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:31PM (#20087346)
That page should have some sort of indication that it's scrollable since browsers increasingly don't show visible scrollbars until you're already scrolling. Something like Bootstrap's scrollspy might be useful since it could also show you the sections further down before you scroll through the intermediate sections.
Re:Apple Sign In by prepend on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:30PM (#20087339)
I pay $30/year for a cpanel host that includes unlimited mail forwarding for any address on any domain. This is a byproduct of what I really do which is host a bunch of sites. $48/year for email scrubbing seems like a high price.

I think it’s great, and use it a lot. Just wonder how you got to that price vs like $10/year.

Re:Apple Sign In by albertgoeswoof on Monday June 03, 2019 @03:40PM (#20087532)
Pro users subsidise the free ones, unfortunately. Assuming a 1% conversion rate to pay server costs and 1-2 devs full time at 4 usd/pro user/month you need 2500 pro users, which is 250,000 users.

That and people pay 4 bucks for a coke these days so it’s not really much. Also cPanel is most definitely an expert tool.

I might make it paid only soon and reduce the price but at present there’s not much option to get real feedback and user traction.

Re:Apple Sign In by criddell on Monday June 03, 2019 @05:26PM (#20088985)
Once it's up and running, does it really take 2 full-time people to keep it running?
Re:Apple Sign In by prepend on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:10AM (#20092966)
Thanks, this helps me understand and I appreciate you going into cost model for something that’s really up to you to decide.

$4 is not very much, you’re right, but that doesn’t mean that it should be spent unwisely otherwise it adds up quickly. It seems unlikely that this would need a full time dev to operate and seems more like a “4 hour workweek” type business once it’s set up that would have pretty minimal maintenance, or a super bored developer waiting around for a bug to patch.

Do you think you’ll drop the price once you no longer need a dev?

Re:Apple Sign In by golem14 on Monday June 03, 2019 @08:12PM (#20090439)
Thanks. I had not noticed even though I scrolled to the bottom