Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marketing stack

Re:Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marke... by frgtpsswrdlame on Saturday February 19, 2022 @10:47AM (#30397929)

Can you expand on this point?

>It's very, very expensive, and their purchasing model seems designed to prevent people from realising this.

How is it expensive in a way that's not transparent?

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Re:Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marke... by disgruntledphd2 on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:56AM (#30406635)

So, snowflake charges you for "credits", which don't have a 1-1 mapping with dollars (because sales, volume discounts etc).

The real trouble is that they don't show the credits used anywhere in their SQL interface (there's a table, but you need to go looking for it). If they wanted to help you keep costs down, they'd show you how many you'd used without needing to jump through hoops.

As I said, great product, but pricing could be a lot more transparent.

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