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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by manigandham on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:22PM (#21277168)
Start charging immediately, and put up a real pricing page with SLAs. Find out as soon as possible if people will actually value this enough to pay for it.

This provides a signaling of value, creates a real business relationship, and directly contributes to the lifespan of the vendor.

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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by codezero on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:56PM (#21278782)
Not to diminish your point but that’s really hard to get right. Most early stage startups have absolutely no idea what their product is worth.
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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by bfung on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:34AM (#21278944)
It doesn't have to be right from the get go. Hard is why it should get done.

A free model doesn't really tell their business if there's actually demand and if people actually value it when supply is "infinite" when in reality it isn't.

Guess a high price with some research for similar things and lower it iteratively. Def. see what sticks.

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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by pas on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:06AM (#21281113)
They could go the AWS route, start high and decrease prices.

Also they could combine this with discounts, such as if someone preallocates capacity for X month, they get f(X) % discount.

They should build a core customer base. Solicit feedback about what niche feature they would happily pay for.

For example here's a GitLab issue that I think people would (might?) use: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/15536 (provide a "lock service" or a queue with max concurrency gate and launch pipelines / jobs)

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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by manigandham on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:14AM (#21279105)
But that is my point. You won't know until you do it. It's a constant experiment, you just have to start somewhere.
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Re:Show HN: Pipedream. Develop any workflow, on any trigger,... by theli0nheart on Saturday October 19, 2019 @11:31AM (#21298991)
If everyone avoided doing hard things, our world would be a lot worse off.
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