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Ask HN: Ripley as a Service, any interest?

I was thinking: maybe it could be a good idea to create a software like Ripley as a service to insure all computers shut down in a certain location if a robbery is ongoing.

Do you guys think there would be any interest from the businesses for such a service ?

Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16154058

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I think there would be interest, but I can't help but think most of the interest will be in avoiding legal issues. Robbers don't generally steal data off the computers.

In the case of legal issues I wonder about clientele you will attract, and your pricing strategy.

For the pricing strategy, it could be as simple as "$x per month/year per workstation"

Or some discounted packages: $x 1-10 computers, $y 11-100, $z 101-1000.

yeah but if the clients will in reality turn out to only be people who want to avoid legal issues then they might be more trouble than you imagine, therefore need to charge more and then based on what you need to charge you might not be able to keep enough clients to make creating/maintaining service especially worthwhile.

In that case, I'd go with:

  - package1 ($): Service as is.
  - package2 ($$): Self-hosted as is.
  - package3 ($$$): Self-hosted with support.

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