Announcing our pricing (including consulting rates)

The ramp from free to paying customer is too high. Either remove the free plan or add a lower bracket. The way you priced things is cute, but shows that these are numbers that you made up. People might look at them and question you, your business, and the value you provide. The standard pricing model [1] works. Stick to it.<p>[1] - Use .99, .97, or .95 instead of whole numbers. Use odd numbers. Example: 127.99 or 129.99 for your lowest plan.<p>.99 is for regular prices. .97 is for lowered prices (but still considered regular). .95 is for promotional prices. Special prices may include either, but are ruled by different pricing options.<p>Edit:<p>Don't take my word for it and test it.

For me personally, "128, 256, 768, 2048" pattern looks like a product of nerdiness to the prejudice of real value. And, since real value is likely to be less that nerdic numbers, I instantly feel cheated by looking onto these rates.

Your pricing worries me. It looks like you have just made the numbers up and don't know what your costs are.<p>I feel the starting price is fairly high but that's not to say it won't work for you.

Love the 128, 256, 768, 2048 prices :)

Your rate looks arbitrary enough that it flipped my "this must be algorithmic!" flag. But, its probably not.<p>Even if its not, it would be cool to hang a shingle as a consultant and have a variable rate based on how much work is in the pipeline. This would be an awesome visual and may actually help choose the optimum hourly rate over the long term.<p>Edit: hah, just saw the pattern. Still, interesting idea you piqued there. Surely it must have been done somewhere.

We'd love your feedback on consulting as a piece of our business model.<p>The main reason we're doing it is to put our customers at ease while we continue learning, not because we want it to remain a substantive part of our revenue at scale (because the linear opex is unattractive to us as businesspeople)