Then I read the "Host your blog right here on PretzelBox." and clicked the Blog link on top. "https://pretzelbox.notion.site/8d8ba84f16ea456984020cc15efad..."
And I thought to myself "So it's a well-marketed notion whitelabel reseller." You're probably good at marketing, but I'm not sure what Cloud back-end infrastructure IP you would have for sale...
Your emails use SES for send/receive, files are stored in S3, auth is managed using cognito, the blog that users present to their site visitors are a Svelte SPA.
(The blog itself is a WIP so im using Notion to host my own content for now)
Think of it as a single replacement for Wordpress, dropbox/wetransfer, and gmail/gsuite.
The intellectual property is the working to provide a fully functioning business-y email inbox running on your custom domain, the code to host your own content at scale on your own domain, and code to secure access to private content.
So, your customers could use you for email management, use you to send and receive files, write blogs, and manage their team’s authentication and authorization.
I wish there were a simpler word to describe it but since it’s so many things, I went with “backend in a box”.
In my mind, I feel this could/should qualify as a hosting service
I read your landing page, I have no clue what it is you're selling or what it costs. I'm busy, you were lucky few minutes of my time, in the few minutes I couldn't figure out why I should give you more time or money.
I would highly suggest you work on the landing page:
* What am I buying?
* What problem are you solving?
* What does it cost?
* How is your solution better than others?
Ah, a .cc domain, they're too underfunded to pay for a .com. I probably shouldn't use them for anything too important.
I do not want to "join your beta list". I want a service, now or never.
"PretzelBox" is my backend? Backend to what? You tell me not to worry about domains, email, storage... Does that mean PB provides those? Are you better than WordPress? Are you better than gsuite?
Then there are some random (and I'm guessing fake (rude, I'm sure, but why should I believe them?)) testimonials.
Then some arbitrary text: "See what people have twisted their PretzelBoxes into" with no links, description, or examples... So I'm assuming PB has been twisted into nothing?
Finally, after much scrolling and bullshit, a list of features. So I get some email, some storage, you say unlimited, but I doubt. Still no pricing info. I get some blogs, "No need to learn WordPress!" but... I have to learn PB? How hard is PB. WordPress at least has a ton of support and resources.
Someone looking to save money on server costs by using a hosting company would effectively be going the other way in the stack: taking the cloud out of the equation and operating servers directly. The original poster in this thread acquired a hosting company to be able to provide this kind of service in their vertical.
So in effect I provide cloud services and cloud APIs on top of physical bare-metal servers that are maintained and housed by someone else.