Ask HN: How do you get on the radar of digital agencies with a product/service?

2 points·knutmartin··5 comments

We are currently seing increased traction for our plug and play database service restdb.io, especially from digital agencies. How could we reach more of them? Target their developers?

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100 database records on the free tier is way too low. That isn't even enough to make a half decent version of the "Contacts" database you have as an example in the Quick Start guide. If a developer can't build anything useful with it they can never go to their Head of Development with a side project to demonstrate what restdb.io can do. Look at what your competition offers as a starting point.

It's 100.000 records first month and you can request to extend it. What do you suggest we do?

Increase the limit to something useful. Using your example of a contacts database, being limited to 100 records means I can't use your service to run my app for more than a month. Plus, as a side project it'd take me longer than that just to get it working.

I see. What would be useful? Forever? 3 months?

Time limits put people off because you can't run a small project on the service, so any time you invest in learning it is going to be wasted if you can't/won't pay later on.

I actually really like IBM's Cloudant model where they change incrementally for everything but don't bill you if your usage for a month is under $50. That way I can happily build a small side project knowing it'll only cost me if it gets moderately big.

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