I understand that bu Vercel KV is almost 2x more expensive than Upstash. Even the vercel/kv package is just a wrapper for upstash/redis - I mean what is the benefit of using Vercel KV instead of Upstash? What DX is improved?
Upstash offers a nice UI and easy integration with edge functions and lambas functions. It's the same with neon database and cloudflare r2. The only plus value I see is the centralised dashboard. Paying 2x for a single dashboard?
the margin that vercel makes on these products that you can easily integrate with nextjs (or anything else that runs on their infra) is crazy. All of them offer easy integration with the edge or lambas functions...
I don't see how vercel justifies this price outside of DX
The pricing of Wistia and many others is based on bandwidth. All plans on Wistia come with 200 GB of bandwidth then it's $0.33/GB.
According to their bandwith predictor, for the example you gave 7200 views is equivalent to 202GB so you exceed their limit.
Now my point is that it's complicated to determine exactly how much a video is going to consume. Each provider has their own calculation. I'm going on a per minute view time basis instead.
Indeed if you have only one video in your account, to reach 600 hours/month you need 7200 views. But you assume that the video is watched at 100% which is very optimistic. If your video is viewed 90% you have 8000 views. If it is watched 50, 14,400 views.
> 8000 views is 224 GB on the Wistia calculator and so it costs you $7.92 more.
> 14400 views is 404 GB and therefore you get $67.32.
I wanted to test a new approach to pricing. In the future there may be some adjustments to the quantity levels or the addition of higher third parties.
I'll probably add a little calculator on the pricing page so you can test and compare how much hodho would cost compared to the solution you're already using.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Hopefully I've been clear enough.
I wanted to share something I’ve been working on for the past couple of months. Several acquaintances wanted a simple video hosting platform, and they didn’t want to go through Vimeo or YouTube. Having used Wistia before, I propose this one because it’s a great tool, but they are not attracted because they have to pay $99 as soon as they have over 3 videos and/or want to put their branding on the player. So they kindly ask me to do you know IT stuff to make this for them. I did it once, twice, three times... and I just thought why don’t I make a platform for it. And thus was born Hodho an alternative of Wistia.
Hodho is a simple Nestjs application backed by a PostgresSQL database. On the frontend, I use React. About analytics, I only collect information useful to understand how your video is viewed. I don’t know if John Doe in his house in Seattle watched the video at 1PM. If the user has put the DNT in his browser, I don’t retrieve the information from the browser, country, language.
The demo video comes from the transistor.fm website. Justin Jackson has kindly accepted to let me use the player for showcase purposes.
I would love to hear your feedback. Thanks and smile! :)