The pricing truly is nutty. $165 a year for foldable bullet points??!! Gtfo. I wouldn't pay that much to own the app outright.
I sincerely hope they lose their lunch, and I feel bad for having recommended them to people.
I got lucky and snagged the sync product before they doubled the price, so I'm grandfathered into that. But even $50/yr is a fair bit given it's really just a storage mechanism. $50 isn't that bad, but I would give a hard no at the full price of $100/yr.
Worse, the publish feature... holy insanity this thing is. $192/yr to publish a single repository.
I just don't understand at all how they came up with the pricing. If they need to make money, make the app a paid product for like $10 or $15.
Everything they put a price tag on is astronomical.
* Catalyst (for early access) $25+
* Commercial $50 per year
* Sync $8/mo ($96/yr)
* Publish $16/mo ($192/yr)
The app remains free, so it's clear they're trying to subsidize the cost of the app by cranking up the dial on the extra services, but I'd rather they just charge a reasonable price for the app and make the addon services reasonably priced. I'd be happy to pay like $10/yr for the app, and if, presumably, enough others were it would probably make them MORE money than the add-on services because a larger portion of their user base would have to pay for the app, and probably wouldn't shit a brick at $10/yr or something reasonable.
I believe the tech stack is clojure, which makes a ton of sense given that the data store is basically a graph database.
The other points were though.