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It's $50 a dev/month for custom layouts and user logins? What independent could afford $600 a year?

You’re talking 6 hours of billable time to cover a year’s usage. The time savings alone of creating PoCs/MVPs for clients pays itself off.

What is your hourly rate? Is it less than $50/hour?

I fail to see the equivalence. I'm not contracting with Anvil for development or support. I'm basically buying a tool, in this case a tool that is more expensive than my hosting costs.

Well - two areas.

One, if you're using it commercially, it's going to pay for itself pretty quickly. I rarely do client projects for less than several thousand pounds; I reckon I could probably churn a lot of them out using this in half the time.

Two if you're not using it commercially, it's still a very low cost; maybe more than pure hosting but it does a lot more than just hosting.

Is it supposed to be an either/or? I don't see how I could give up my Amazon services.

Is your time worth 0?

Honest question, this looks awesome but how would a contractor justify using it? Would you somehow swallow the risk of them going out of business for whatever reason and promise a rewrite for clients (is that something you can get insured for?) or would clients just be okay with the risk? It seems like you'd have to have already bought enterprise to be able to run this without them from what I can tell?

I don’t know yet - I’m asking them a few questions.

I’m always upfront about the tools I use with my clients as the value isn’t in the tool, it’s in their requirements.

But being able to move away quickly is important to me because I have client relationships (and production code) that is 9 years old.

(I also don’t consider myself a contractor, more a consultant - a semantic difference but an important one)

Almost any? Think of the time saved.

Many can easily affort it, depending on the country I guess.

Our consulting rates are way above that per week.

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