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Great work, Alex and team!

Thanks, Glosster. Please keep the ideas coming.

Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update of our pricing (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256). Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Albert

Thank you. Please let us know how you like it.

Thank you!

Yes, it has. I'm still pretty sure we have more to learn from what users think so I am eager to hear feedback. Please bring it on!

Yes, these new commands will be very elegant and super efficient for devs, saving tons of work and making things more memory and bandwidth-efficient on the front-end.

Thanks, gqlfan. We have some new capabilities coming up soon related to groupings and aggregations which are going to be a HUGE enhancement to our GraphQL engine. Stay tuned!

Thanks, Bluebyrd on all accounts.

Thanks, RMacy. Please let us know how to keep improving and we will make it happen.

Let us know once you do.

Glad you like it!

Thanks. Any specific features you are referring to?

Thank you!

Thanks. Be on the lookout for lots of improvements to the SDK, as well.

Thanks, Mark. Yes, the $49 plan was really needed as the step from $8 to $149 was just too big of a leap.

About eight weeks ago I hopped on here and announced 8base to HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update.

Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Thanks Albert

Nice job integrating Cloudinary, 8base and AWS Translate.

Gremlinsinc, please email me at [email protected] as I'd like to chat with you about this some more if you are up for it. Thank you.

Andric, please email me at [email protected] as I'd like to chat with you about this some more. Thank you.

johnnyballgame, thanks so much for chiming in. I'm thrilled to hear you are using 8base with Gatsby. The team had a call with Jason Lengstorf recently to figure out exactly how to support this! As of now, you'll need to stick with the "gatsby-source-graphql" plugin. We'll work on some example content for creating statis pages at build time asap!

Best of luck, Benjie. Yes, let's connect at the next one for sure!

Thanks for the kind words, Ilyalazarev. We don't publish a public roadmap but here are a few teasers of what is coming in the next few months: 1) For our advanced users we will be releasing the ability to create and manage views and indexes on the data. The views are totally GraphQL enabled. 2) Brand new user administration and user invitation capability. 3) Native Salesforce.com integration - Ability to expose a company's Salesforce.com instance via GraphQL and cross-connected with 8base data.

Lots more...

Yes, we will consider these and welcome other ideas.