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Tell HN: Heroku disabling monthly plans?

4 points·by Murkin·3 tahun yang lalu·6 comments

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Murkin
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Update - after more prodding both representative mentioned that you can actually move to monthly. It's just something that they can't (don't) want to enable. "Heroku online" exists but being aggressively hidden.
Murkin
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Double checked with another one - same answer
Murkin
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
These is what I got sent:

From August 1, SF will change her price list so Heroku customers won't be able to work on a monthly payment.

Yes, all of the customers will be contract-based customers and will sign a yearly/multiyear contract.
Murkin
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan.

And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive.

I reached out to ask if we can do any other payment scheme, or at least get startup discount to start using, but were declined.

We ended up using an OSS library for that part and even now what we grown, still don't pay for sidekiq. If it was part of Pro, or we had a 1 year discount for startups, we prob just kept on paying even now (that we can afford it).
Murkin
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
There were 3 plans offered, community, pro and enterprise. We only needed one feature that was sadly in the "enterprise" bucket.

Sadly that plan was very expensive, so ended up not paying anything and just getting the feature from OSS.

No the pricing, but rather the feature coupling to plans and no willingness to do any dynamic pricing.
Murkin
·4 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Amazing project, only sad note is the monetization side is a bit neglected.

We were ready to pay for Sidekiq, but the pricing model was just off and we just used an OSS lib to patch the missing part.

Mike if you are here, might be worth to invest some time in pricing research, you could probably double your revenue.
Murkin
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
They have a large water reservour in their plan..
Murkin
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
From what I gather in their explanation, they use air pressure to push water out of an underground container.

The energy is reclaimed when the pressure is released (i.e. water can fall back and fill the container).

How is the energy density different that what is provided by the water's static energy due to gravity?
Murkin
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
But they already fill the underground containers with water when there is low air pressure. (thats what the reservoir on top is, no?)
Murkin
·5 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Can someone explain why this is better than just using pumps to pump water up from the reservoir and extract the energy with when the water returned back?