Very good points! However I feel like if you speed the hireing process up too much many candidates will walk home without the impression of having to achieved something bigger. Shure, you should not waste too much time, but greater upfront effort will make the candidate feel like he has actually achieved something if he gets the offer. And this in return may increase the likelyhood of him or her accepting the job.
The point I am telling you may be hard to explain, but in a nutshell I just want to say that you should try to increase the value of getting an offer by increasing the time frame between first contact and final offer just a little, for instance by having an extra meeting/screening/etc. in between.
Sorry for the late reply. Shure, it is hard to develop a good pricing model, but if your approach is serious you try to figure it out pre-launch, so that a potential customer does NOT have to think about how much he would like to pay for the service. He either accepts the offer or he doesn't, and a tiered model (dependant on your use) should offer a good deal for everyone. I personally would argue that twice the free tier would be worth 10 bucks a month, double that 15, and double that again 25. This way would reward bigger users with a volume discount, but still make the service accessible for more serious hobbyists.
I think the software itself is actually really well done, however I hate the fact that the pricing always HAS to be 'Contact sales'.
Why is it so hard to have transparent pricing? Just say what you offer and tell us how much you want to be paid, as easy as that. 'Contact sales' makes pricing REALLY intransparent and ultimately leads to lower sales.
The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon is actually among the strongest MacBook competitors. It has a really strong i7 provessor, 512GB SSD and 8 GB of ram. All of this in a light carbon unibody enclosure, and at 1499 (without OS- saves Windows 10 licensing costs) its even pretty cheap for the specs you get.
How come all that complaining and rambling about the missing upgrades for the iMac or Mac mini? I really think that Apple did a great job at evolutionally improving the MacBook Pro under the hood, and the TouchBar seems to be a really usefull addition for creative professionals.
Quite a fraction of the HN community really seems to enjoy complaining about what possibly could have been, rather than just beeing happy about the stuff Apple delivered today. And if you just can't stand the new MacBooks? Who cares! There are tons of other manufacturers to choose from and a different machine may just fit your taste perfectly.
so a quick follow up: how many startups of the last round were not located in SF? Sometimes as a non US citizen it seems like the whole startup world is all centered in SF...
I am currently using the Hetzner SX131 in RAID 1 and http://minio.io. For about 200€ you get (2x) 30 TB and 50 TB traffic included. Thats about 0.007€ per GB with "free" traffic.
I think there is really no doubt that the storage prices itself ( for all types) are pretty amazing. But let's face it: traffic costs are the huge elephant in the room. By charging 12ct and more per GB, the traffic costs easily become your biggest expense, and make the storage price reduction from 2.6 to 2ct per GB almost forgetable.
For me this is in no way acceptable and it seems to be a vicious attempt to sneak in some extra profit without having the customer noticing this upfront. Shure, these harsh words seam like a big exaggeration, but I literally never ever hear or read something about traffic costs in Googles fancy blog posts, and I would make the assumption that only a fraction of the HN community is aware of this fact. 120 bucks for a sloppy TB of traffic is just way too high.
I think it is pretty interesting to see that the authors (Wolfram Hempel) company, deepstreamhub, does have a businessmodel not far away from RethinkDBs.
Both are based on paid consulting/support and try to monetize their open source software (RethinkDB and Horizon on one hand, deepstream.io on the other) through hosted versions, the Horizon Cloud (beta) and the yet to be released deepstreamhub.com. I really hope this works out for deepstream.io, maybe the focus on PaaS makes the difference.
It is simply not true that caddy is JUST a collection of Go libraries, since parts of it like the Caddyfile concept are developed by Matt Holt, the (main) dev behind Caddy. Apart from that I would definetly say that Caddy is far easier to use than Apache or Nginx, which is a big bonus if you are just getting started in web development.
Actually I did the opposite, since Firebase comes with a huge vendor lock-in. For smaller projects Firebase however may be a good fit, the Flame plan provides good value for 25 bucks a month. If your product needs scale up to the Blaze plan you are probably screwed...
For me the compute pricing isn't the main issue. The cutthroat bandwith prices from 9 to 18 cents per GB are the main cost drivers and should be at least mentioned in a blog post about price reduction.
It seems like you have to wait some seconds for the server to process the comment, if you refresh it should let you comment again. Anyway, looking forward to the data release, through a blog post I suppose?
:D I am actually trying to do something similar with the js client. I recently tried to convert it to Dart using jsparser, since i am working with http://flutter.io, a hybrid app development project from Google. It worked out just fine for now, currently testing it to get the weak spots fixed.
Nice, really appreciate the progress here! However, is there any reason the artifacts aren't on github? It may be more convenient when it comes to issues/changelogs etc.
Although I generally disagree with the parent comment, I have to say that AWS actually IS overpriced. Just look at Cloud plattforms like OVH.com or even digitalocean.com, they charge almost nothing for the traffic, whereas it comes at a whopping 0.09$/GB at AWS.
If you aren't dependant on specific AWS products like DynamoDB you will definitely find a much better deal elsewhere.