We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres

Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by mooreds on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:03AM (#39228590)

> PS. To the team at tembo, no one is going to sign up for a free trial without a pricing page.

This, times 1000.

I know setting a price is scary, but it is one of the critical pieces of information for anyone stumbling on your product.

If you are looking for a way to take advantage of traffic but aren't ready for pricing, ask for my email address for your newsletter. That's easier for me to give than my time to "kick the tires" with a free trial.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by ninkendo on Friday February 02, 2024 @09:30AM (#39228875)

> ask for my email address for your newsletter

So you’re the one who actually wants that popup? I guess the world really is coming to an end, I couldn’t imagine a single person who actually thinks to themselves “I wish a popup would happen asking for my email address right now.”

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by mooreds on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:01AM (#39230145)

Not a popup, please! Just a from please. I want a way to keep on top of tembo that doesn't involve investing my time. Not saying I'd read every newsletter, though.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by kevincox on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:51AM (#39230940)

This 100%. A polite signup form at the bottom of a page (or an RSS feed) is totally fine. At this point I understand what you are about and will consider subscribing to your news.

But those popups that show up after I have read a few paragraphs of into can go to hell. I just leave the page when I see this at this point.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by mooreds on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:02PM (#39231942)

*"form" not "from"

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by rywalker on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:53AM (#39230013)

Ugly pricing info here: https://tembo.io/docs/tembo-cloud/billing

We're working this sprint on getting up our "marketing" pricing page.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by mooreds on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:02AM (#39230162)

Awesome, thanks for sharing! Don't think it is that ugly, and definitely shares what folks need to know.

Would add that to the front page as a stopgap :) if I were you.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by throwaway98797 on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:23AM (#39229640)

everyone does it

must work some of the time

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by ninkendo on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:45PM (#39234094)

Some of the time, companies think it works. I have no faith in how much/whether companies track the number of times a user simply closes the tab because they got a shitty popup while they were trying to _read about the product_. (It happens to me all the time: Hit a product page, semi-curious, I'm reading about it, then BAM, a popup asking me to sign up for a mailing list, so I close the tab and move on.)

Companies are far more likely to say "We got X people signing up for a mailing list, it must be working", and don't bother whatsoever to measure (a) how many of those signups are just bots and (b) how many potential customers they just turned away by nagging them. I would bet any money that these metrics are either not measured or simply ignored.

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Re:We built our customer data warehouse all on Postgres by namaria on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:18AM (#39248788)

This rationale right here is why we are stuck with so much bloatware. "People enter the tarpits all the time and never leave. There must be something there, I'm going in"

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