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Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper

https://peony.ink/

Hey HN, founder of Peony here. Most founders use DocSend to share investment or sales docs and have to pay $65 to $300 a month to get the security and analytics features. It pains me to see startups getting ripped off when the availability of technologies such as Clickhouse makes real time analytics almost a trivial feature to implement in 2024.

We think it's time to end the carnage and democratize the technology. We set ourselves a high bar: we don't want to build another DocSend - we want it to be a far more superior product and also 10x cheaper.

After a couple of months of work, I'm proud to share with you Peony - a first preview into what we believe will be the future of file sharing. In addition to the analytics and security features you'd expect coming from DocSend, we built Peony to be flexible and adaptable across all your file sharing needs and give you the ability to deeply personalize your file share per recipient.

I'd love to hear what you think?

We are the Prometheus stealing fire from the guarded Olympian mountains. Help us win the rebellion.

( 7 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by laalshaitaan on Monday November 11, 2024 @02:57PM (#42109985)
how is this better from an open source + self-hostable solution like Papermark?

like the ui though!

Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by deqian on Monday November 11, 2024 @03:37PM (#42110241)
Seems that the other option is built for engineers and developers to add new functionality to an existing website. Will be super useful if you are looking to build! But if you are just sharing files or can't be bothered to learn the DevOps and 10+ technologies you need to make everything work, I don't think it'll add value.

Peony is built for founders, sales team, marketing folks, VCs, business owners, and regular folks like you and I. Even if you don't write a single line of code, you can still get a far more superior file sharing experience and better security without breaking your bank.

Hope this helps :)

Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by werzydev on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @10:12AM (#42116060)
cool stuff, congrats on the launch
Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by deqian on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @01:32PM (#42118249)
Thanks so much for your kind words - is there anything you like in particular we should double down on? Super keen to hear your feedback!
Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by Nathanngai on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @02:55PM (#42119037)
nice. ive been looking for a docsend alternative. i'll check it out.
Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by deqian on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @09:17PM (#42122261)
Amazing! If you have any feedback I'd love to hear :)
Re:Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper by Nathanngai on Friday November 15, 2024 @02:47PM (#42150205)
I've been using it for the last few days. Product is amazing. However, the only thing is that my deck takes forever to load compared to DocSend. Investors might not have the patience to wait 5-8 seconds. This might be one reason for me to go back to DocSend.