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Show HN: We moved 8base from free-trial to freemium

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I'm loving 8base so far!

Best UI/UX in a Backend-as-a-service I've ever seen.

Happy to see the new $49/m plan! It's a nice step when you outgrow the Hobby plan, but not having to go straight to "enterprise-level"

PS. The support is probably the best customer support I've ever seen!

They actually listen to customer feedback as well. I'm thoroughly impressed by 8base!

Excited to see what features you add in the future!!!

Thanks, Mark. Yes, the $49 plan was really needed as the step from $8 to $149 was just too big of a leap.

This move to freemium pricing is a great match for JAMstack development cycle with other best-of-breed tools. It helps knowing you won't hit a pricing cliff in the midst of experimentation and growing your app via HOBBYIST to DEVELOPER plans. Way to go 8base!

Thanks, dosh! We're super focused on building better JAMstack tooling :)

Loving the new pricing tiers and not having to jump from the entry level plan to $149 sooner than needed. Thank you for always keeping your customer experience top of mind 8base!

Glad you like it!

About eight weeks ago I hopped on here and announced 8base to HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20876256. Thank you, everyone, who participated in the discussion! That thread led to us making an awesome update.

Early on we were really concerned about our business model. Looking at what’s happened to Graph.cool, Parse, and Scaphold, we didn’t want to die from a free-tier that no-one ever leaves. That’s why we started with launching the 30-day free trial over a free-tier.

We’ve worked hard to find a middle ground based on the HN feedback. So the good news is we’ve changed our pricing for developers by making the following updates.

FREE TIER! It allows developers to build using almost all of 8base's features; free-forever but throttling the API. This makes everything on the backend/console usable while not supporting production use.

Our $8 plan was renamed as HOBBYIST and we’ve introduced a new $49/mo plan called DEVELOPER. The new plan has better limits at lower prices per unit and lets developers utilize their own auth provider – which used to be on the $149/mo plan.

We 10X’d storage for the same price in every plan and reduced charges for overages.

To accommodate long-running jobs, we've changed the way we charge for serverless functions to a combination of memory usage and time (Giga-byte minutes).

I hope these updates put a smile on a few faces! Cause the haters gonna hate...

Thanks Albert

I first looked at 8base about 4 months ago and then again when you announced the product here. The pricing improvements are great but what impresses me the most is how powerful your schema builder is and that it instantly generates your GraphQL API. And, that 8base’s GraphQL engine is really badass and more powerful than any others I have seen.

Thanks, gqlfan. We have some new capabilities coming up soon related to groupings and aggregations which are going to be a HUGE enhancement to our GraphQL engine. Stay tuned!

Oh wow yes. If it’s what I understand it to be I recently had to code my ass of in my front-end to build that capability. When are you anticipating releasing that?

Yes, these new commands will be very elegant and super efficient for devs, saving tons of work and making things more memory and bandwidth-efficient on the front-end.

This has been a long time coming. I can personally attest to how much thinking and hard work has gone into this.

Yes, it has. I'm still pretty sure we have more to learn from what users think so I am eager to hear feedback. Please bring it on!

Love the team over at 8base, incredible customer support, and an even more impressive product. I really love how easy it is to get up and running. Much better tooling/ui/workflow than appsync/amplify.

Thanks, RMacy. Please let us know how to keep improving and we will make it happen.

Highly recommend! Fantastic product (makes it so easy for a frontend dev to stand up a full-stack application) and the team is so responsive

This is great news! All the best and more power to you!

Thank you!

Nice change - this should help more people to try the product. Great progress on the UI since I last checked it.

Thanks. Be on the lookout for lots of improvements to the SDK, as well.

Last time I checked in on you guys was when you posted last on HN. The new pricing looks great - you addressed one of my concerns. But even better is that I see some new killer features you've brought online! Keep up the great work.

Thanks. Any specific features you are referring to?

Your Salesforce integration is amazing and then I was more surprised when in your API Explorer I saw I could use the OneGraph tooling to access my Salesforce and 8base data.

Great news! Really exciting! Congratulations.

Thank you. Please let us know how you like it.

That's a great news! - going to ty it soon.

Let us know once you do.

Great to see you guys moving forward. Great service, clear pricing, and great people.

Thank you!

oh, dude! this is what I was waiting for. Amazing latest release!

Awesome! Really smart work from a great team

Thanks, Bluebyrd on all accounts.

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