186 karma · joined September 16, 2014
Thanks for the suggestion!
Wojtek and I were in the meantime building code2flow.com, collaboration solution for diagrams. Also took us a few years.
2 years ago we decided to join forces and built an ultimate art collaboration solution with the experience and codebases from Aggie.io and code2flow.com.
Hard to say how many years ... Definitely over ten thousand of engineering hours but at the same time things were a bit harder few years ago when it comes to browser APIs so if we decided to rebuild it today it could take less time but we would also be more experienced.
Today we're hiring some more people and it's a team effort!
Current paid versions are more for bigger teams and companies requiring on premise solution.
As for $100/$300 pricing, these are on premise business/enterprise versions meant to be used by bigger teams where data confidentiality is crucial.
The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited)
As for the $100/mo - we do have business/enterprise customers who find lots of value in it. I guess the price has been initially verified by the market so should I justify it?
I guess I can justify the price by saying that the project has taken numerous hours of engineering, testing and experimenting. I think this is natural in pricing models that bigger customers pay more.
If you can do the same in a week than good for you.
Peace and take care :)
The most complex flowcharts were created by customers and testers but I don't want to expose their data. They have hundreds of lines of code resulting in huge diagrams.
The enterprise version is for companies embedding code2flow in their own products.
Many thanks!