Seeing the current $70/month for 250,000 page views definitely turned me away (did I read that right? weird decimal place in your copy: 250000.00), but I might not be your target audience. If you do lower the price, just make sure it's long-term sustainable. $5 for 5 million page loads (if that's what you mean in your comment above) would be great, and something I'd consider (since the alternative for me is setting up a $5 DO droplet with schnack[0] or commento[1]) but that might be a bit too cheap depending on the costs on your side (e.g. fighting spam). Might be worth looking at competitors' pricing for inspiration. A lot of developer types would most likely choose your service over disqus even if you're a bit more expensive, simply because of all the bloat and tracking and shady behavior of disqus. That would be too expensive for me, but like I said, I might not be your target audience.

I love the simple setup and that you're focused on performance and not spying on users! If the pricing gets adjusted, I would seriously consider adding it to some of my sites. Oh, if you're not going to make it open source, then an "export" feature is crucial for me, because I despise lock-in.

[0]: https://schnack.cool/

[1]: https://github.com/adtac/commento

Yes I will definitely do load tests to determine what won't break me. I really like the $4.99 number. Now have to pick a traffic number.

You can export all of your data. Made sure I had that from the get-go. When writing the importer from the other providers it's amazing how much they hide from you. Disqus doesn't even export avatar urls.

Decimal place - yeah I tend to automate things and all that is generated from some configuration. I trusted Number.toLocaleString too much :)

Schnack - thanks. One cool thing that has that I don't is localization. I have to work on that.

Edit - a fun story that should have shown me how bad the pricing model is. I was using Mapbox for a project and accidentally made 1m api calls. I still owe them a few thousand dollars.... So yeah, I am morally obligated to fix it. :D

Localization's been added.

Done!

> something I'd consider [...] since the alternative for me is [...] commento

It sounds as if there's something about Commento you're not totally happy with -- I'm curious about what that could be?

I think you might actually be devaluing it by coupling pricing to page loads. The value of a comment system is more in how many people use it and how many comments they make.

> Pretty much everyone says the pricing model sucks. I agree. Will rework.

Why would you ever listen to people who are not your customers (pulled out a credit card, agreed to be charged) about what you should be doing?

Starbucks coffee is $2.45 + taxes. 100/mo is less than a cup of coffee a day.

Well, I already knew it wasn't great just compared to the competition and the value proposition.

Don't worry. I have pushed back a lot on a lot of feedback (quite a few people did not like the design @ Reddit). I'm sticking to my values. :)