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I commend you for building a beautiful tool, and your landing page is great. I personally find the pricing quite expensive.

It's a blog. How can it be that expensive to host a blog, especially if you're just getting started?

Looking at other options - first one come to mind is Card - that's much more affordable.

I am glad you're giving a free trial - that's not a bad deal, at least people can try it before committing.

$15 a month to host a blog vs spending your own time figuring things out and being proud of having built something from an open-source repo (and perhaps contribute some knowledge back like this blogpost OP posted) could be also interesting.

Feel free to change my mind.

Btw, dont wanna sound like an asshole - if I was a business (not an individual) I would purchase from you for sure!

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Thanks. I get this feedback about pricing sometimes.

It's $15/month, but you can create any number of blogs with it. Not just a single blog.

There are people paying for it, so yeah, I think it is appealing enough for some people.

I especially get no coders as my customers. They can just whip up a page on Notion, and then instantly publish it to their blog. They get all the analytics, seo optimization, search and many other things out of the box. It's no different than how Ghost blog is charged at. Also, ghost cost is per blog.

My customers are mostly no coders, who don't code, but use Notion in their daily life to write content.

There's only so many people who have a valid use-case for having multiple blogs. The limiting factor to getting good content out to lots of people isn't how many blogs they have, it's how many good articles they can write and in how long of a timespan.

Yeah, I agree with you. In fact, 95% of my customers have only one blog.

Ability to create multiple blogs is a feature, not the whole value prop of Feather.

well it shouldnt be surprising that businesses, especially people who are not developers like you, are much better customers to serve :)

$15/mo is already super low, you need to recalibrate what good saas pricing is

Yes, especially for businesses. $15/month is super low.

But yeah, for some people, especially developers, it can seem a little high.

I will also change the pricing for sure in the future, once I have some business specific features like API access, multiple seats etc.

Just wanted to test the waters, and I was already able to get my first 100 customers, so I know this works. Now I just have to optimize the pricing and work on things that users request.

That price is squarely in the realm of other popular similar products like Squarespace. Most likely not targeted at people who have the skills and time to figure out how to self-host.

What is Card? Google isn’t turning anything up for me.

It’s this I think.

https://carrd.co/

But as far as I know, you can’t make blogs with Carrd. It’s only for small one page websites.

You can, just not as efficiently as your solution or Wordpress or Ghost or whatever :)

Yeah.

Some of my customers are using https://carrd.co along with my https://feather.so

Carrd for the landing page and Feather for other pages.

For example,

http://starrt.co -> Made with Carrd

https://starrt.co/blog -> Made with Feather

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