I love cars and absolutely love this interior. It's retro-modern and has clear inspiration from Ferraris of the 80's and 90's. Ferrari's interior in the past few models (296, Roma) was absolutely atrocious, and this is a big step up.
It's strange death when the WP market share is at over 40% of all websites [1] and still growing (though slowly). Lots of people might not like it, but saying it's dying is more of a wish than a fact.
I've left one after an absolutely horrible experience. They removed it. I had to fight with their support to put it back. The same apartment now has only 10 reviews. All from this year, all 5*.
Just in case you were not aware: "OpenAI does not use data submitted by customers via our API to train OpenAI models or improve OpenAI’s service offering." It does for ChatGPT though.
With all the arguments how ChatGPT is "just autocomplete", I wonder if these people ever used it. I know it is technically autocomplete, but the end results are so much more than that.
We never wanted to go the funding route so this was never considered. While it might have worked, it would prolong the whole thing and make it much, much more stressful.
> We tried with a very low-price plan and got a lot of interest & signups. The moment we raised the prices a bit to cover hosting costs, the interest went away.
I have to correct my partner here as his memory is a bit fuzzy. :) We tried a low tier price ($15/m vs regular $49/m) but it did not make any significant difference in signups.
We targeted the high-end of the WordPress market where we competed against Kinsta, WP Engine, Flywheel etc. And the problem there was they were "good enough" (and in some ways muhc better) as I mention in the blog post.
At the same time, the lowend SiteGround had prices below $5/m so we couldn't compete against them in that segment as we were paying more than that to Google Cloud.
It started at $49/m and we were clearly targeting the upper end of the market. It went up to a few hundred dollars and we had a user or two on those plans as well.