Hacker News Reader

Seems a bit expensive to me. How do you justify the high prices compared to other analytics tools?

We hear mixed voices. Most people seem to think $50/month is cheap for a small- and medium-sized company (with lower volumes).

For bigger sites Volument is indeed more expensive than Mixpanel for example, but we justify that with providing data that helps them do more of those valuable conversions.

And Heap Analytics is much more expensive for bigger sites than Volument.

I have some side-projects that have a few pageviews a day and make a few dollars a month. They would be a perfect way for me to try out your service and keep it in mind for larger projects or work, but I don't want to spend $50 when that's many times my monthly revenue.

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a free tier for something like 1000 pageviews per month? Just an idea.

We'll keep this in mind. A promise.

I second this. I'd love to try it out on some low-volume side projects before recommending it to some of the larger sites I work on.

Because anyone who thinks $50/month is too expensive isn't the kind of customer you want to waste time acquiring or building a product for. It's a filter function.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com