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0 pointsmichlim4y ago0 comments

Warp engineer here.

The terminal is totally free for individuals. Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features.

We will not degrade your experience: we would never charge for anything a terminal currently does. No paywalls around SSH or features that don't cost us money. We will never sell your data. We treat privacy seriously at Warp: check out www.warp.dev/privacy for more information.

We are planning to open-source parts and potentially all of the terminal.

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ushakov4y ago

> Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features.

why would businesses pay for something that was always free?

selling bottom to top is terrible strategy that rarely works (been there, done that)

you should instead market it to decision-makers who actually have a say what services the business purchases or not

developers have no say in business and have no access to credit cards

basically if you want to sell a terminal app, don't sell a terminal app, instead sell your "productivity platform" and terminal is just needed to "access productivity benefits"

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