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Re:Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes by bombcar on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:10AM (#31608517)
Many many SaaS products have a cliff, usually from "free" to "first cost" and that cliff can be pretty substantial.

But going straight from "free" to "enterprise" is steep even for a SaaS. Usually there's a "teams" level between.

Re:Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes by benmanns on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:34AM (#31608858)
Yeah, and they can be stupid expensive for small side projects with a handful of contributors. If you want a Netlify site with a background function that serves 10 visitors a day with 3 people occasionally logging in or pushing code, you pay $57/mo to execute $0.0001 worth of Lambda functions. Maybe it's worth it if things take off, but before then you're paying a lot for very little. So, you host on a DigitalOcean droplet or directly on AWS, and bear a migration cost if you were to choose Netlify as soon as things start growing.
Re:Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes by turtlebits on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:57AM (#31610097)
If the value proposition isn't for you, then don't use it. You can't focus on a single feature while ignoring all the others. (ie - your 3 people team would pay $300/mo if you wanted SAML)
Re:Improved workflow and new role for pricing changes by zoover2020 on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:35AM (#31620795)
Vercel is a much better deal. Moved to there 3 years ago and never looked back