Re:Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
by lukevp on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:37AM
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Your app seems geared toward users who are not very technical. I think your pricing structure is too sophisticated. I would include everything in the free plan and the tiers would only be bandwidth usage and form submissions. No one is going to upgrade for robots.txt file support. Even the 30 deploys a month is a lot but it’s psychologically going to feel limiting and decrease signups. They’re gonna upgrade because they need to capture more forms not because of deploy count, that’s just going to upset people. That’s why Netlify has unlimited everything but if you want to capture forms or any other server side processing, you pay. That’s the biggest value add for these services imo.
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Re:Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
by cvrajeesh on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:58AM
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Thank you, that's a great suggestion. I need to go back to the drawing board and improve pricing based on all the valuable inputs collected from here
Re:Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
by bitten on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:30PM
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Netlify does only has 500 build minutes a month. If you go over, you get charged. Although if your build takes 2 minutes, you can still deploy 250 times per month which is around 8 times a day.. so still very generous.
edit: I see somebody beat me to it :)
Re:Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
by tln on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:34AM
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I agree in general but FYI Netlify's free tier now limits build minutes. It may end up being the lever that gets me to upgrade.
Re:Show HN: Static website hosting with auto optimization
by lukevp on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:58AM
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That’s interesting, thanks for the update. I think removing build restrictions still applies though. In netlify’s case they are trying to convert their large free base whereas this product is new and needs those free signups for future growth/conversion and I bet the build minutes aren’t going to be a huge cost. I would just throttle heavy users (deprioritize in the queue once you exceed 100 builds in a month or something). I wouldn’t even bother doing this work until/unless it’s a scaling or cost issue though, it may never be and saying the builds are “unlimited*” with some wording that excessive use may be throttled would be enough cya.