The fact that your ssl cert is not working is also a concern
https://fortiguard.com/webfilter?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgrapedrop.c...
There's a link to submit a review on that page.
Looks neat, though!
There are a few reasons for this:
1) The difference between $35 a month and $250 a month is a rounding error to most enterprises -- but for you, aggregated across all your business customers, it will make it much, much easier to grow and achieve profitability.
2) It's easy to lower your prices if you receive consistent feedback that people really want your product but think it's 30% too expensive or whatever. It's very difficult to raise your prices once people are locked in at a lower monthly rate (especially if the rate is an order of magnitude lower than what you end up really needing to charge).
3) Businesses are used to paying a lot of money for software (sometimes up to seven or eight figures annually). For large enterprises, there is a counterintuitive psychological factor: they don't trust something that costs $XX a month to reliably store their data and scale to their needs, and you'll actually close more customers at $XXX or $XXXX a month.
4) Selling to enterprises is very costly -- they will (try to) run you through procurement, legal reviews, security reviews, terms of service negotiations, and a litany of other things. Your price point needs to take that cost into account -- you simply can't make a profit from large enterprises if you have to spend a few thousand dollars of time/resources getting them closed, and then you have to make it up $35 at a time.
Also, I agree with the other comment saying you shouldn't offer a free plan, especially since your product is open source and they could self-host if they really wanted it. There's an inversion of value -- free users still expect you to support them, and users in free/cheap plans are often actually the noisiest for whatever reason. If I were you, I'd charge about $25/mo for the basic feature set (maybe without the branding and with more than 50 form submissions); $99/mo for the "premium" feature set; and "call me" for enterprises (hundreds to thousands a month depending on scale and commitment).
Then, after you're all tested and things are working well, then raise prices (maybe after 2-4 weeks in).
Does it really matter about having high prices for those first few customers? No, they get a reward for taking a risk on you!
I know because I did exactly what you said, and I can tell you your point #2 "It's easy to lower prices" is not quite right.
It really sucks to lower prices. Here's what that looks like:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/nugget.one/academy/nugget-down.png
Conversely, it's easy to raise prices and grandfather the first few customers that took a risk on you.
2. While you may be right that you can raise prices, you have to remember the competition - I'd compare this to, say, Wix or Wordpress or Squarespace. It may be 200% better than those tools but price matters to the people buying and they will be comparing them.
2. All content is focused at English audience except the pricing details. Use a dot decimal sign $12.34 not $12,34
3. I would make the connection to your open source project explicit. It’s an asset. Sentry.io does this well
Congrats on shipping!
Of course this depends also on who you want to target as potential customers - who do you want to target?
However I don't understand what this is? What's the output? A hosted website or some html? What would I use this for?
It should be simple but it’s so hard for the developer to see they have not explained the basics.
And if your project don’t explain the basics fast, people leave in seconds.
1. Design your page using our simple page builder 2. We host it for you in one click (or you can choose to export it and host yourself)
I think it might be a good idea to further limit your free tier to a time trial (a week?) maybe rather than # of projects, and maybe adding a cheaper tier -- the ability to make a website with only drag and drop.
Some that you might consider competitors:
- http://macaw.co/ (not really)
- https://landingi.com/pricing
Also, I'm not sure who your main audience is, but using ',' for a decimal point is not commonplace in the USA. I doubt any worthwhile customer would think it was $1,490 a month, but just saying.
ps. the price format should be solved :)
Thank you very much for making such cool tools, best of luck with the product
"Malicious emails often link to this site. Are you sure you want to proceed to go.sparkpostmail1.com?"
Alternatively you could put a time limit. "Free 30 day trial" or something.
For example, the "what" is "free forever", so the "why" is "save money and not increase monthly software subscription fees, keep my budget in line with the size of my business, grow with you, etc." Just change the point of view, and you'll get your why.
The "what": super cool features that provide enough flexibility for the credit, but simple interface. The "why": because small business is about ideas, and ideas need a voice and a face. And sometimes the idea is a quick one and I only have a few hours this weekend and the site needs to be done ASAP. Hope this helps you get the wheels turning.
My other feedback is styling: make the text not be aligned or sized so one word is left hanging below a full line. Check different phone screen layouts maybe? Just bugs me to look at. But I do like the overall color a lot. Nice!
1. Very nice, fluid, rich way to edit.
2. When using Command + <- (back arrow) on mac, equivalent to Alt Back Arrow, you should ask if you want to leave project, regardless if it was saved. First time users wont understand at first that you need to click many times in a text box to select THEN edit it, therefore they will not go to top of word/sentence but instead they will leave the current project and go back to project creation or dashboardm, therefore creating frustation.
3. I had a very bad UX case: I went back to dashboard, and came back to upload logo, just to find that my text had been erased and replaced by the original LOREM IPSUM text (effectively, I LOST my write-up work). I believe this is a history navigation issue, but the result is that I lost my page. I could get around this and correct the damage because I had published the evolved version earlier and did not refresh my published page, but you need to check this as this is a deal-breaker when you're authoring.
This is a great tool and if you keep the excellent look and feel, reliability both in UX and hosting if you get it is going to be the make or break part of the equation.
Good luck, and count me in if you need debug and assistance.
Just one feedback. The font on the pricing section is too blurred and not readable.
i see you use ck editor, how was integrating it with page builder? because i was making something similar some time ago and it was a pain to find a solution for inline editor. and how do you host users projects ? i mean is it all in one one virtual machine or something?
I made a plugin for the editor and is open source https://github.com/artf/grapesjs-plugin-ckeditor so try to check it out
> how do you host users projects ? i mean is it all in one one virtual machine or something?
Yeah, kind of
Might want to add them here: https://hellonext.co
Also a example page showing the awesome stuff people can build would be nice.
Besides, business users going for the business instead of premium plan are going to be mostly price insensitive anyway (who needs more than 50 websites?!)
