Business Model
Plans & Pricing
What do people want to buy?
- SEO: Allow search engine indexing. Disallow robots.txt on free sites.
- Collaboration: Multiple people working on the same site. Teams, permissions.
- Backups & rollback: Safe and easy to recover from mistakes. Version control.
- Domain: Upsell domain registration & management?
- Marketing A/B testing: Auto-switch between branches based on feedback mechanism (bandit algo).
- CI/CD: Auto-deploy git/PR branches on subdomains.
- SLA: Pay for reliability guarantee.
- Password protection: Private websites, e.g. for testing?
- Private hosting on-prem support
- Limits on push/redirect/etc
- China PoP
- Expiration with manual monthly re-activation like noip.com
- Connection coalescing to combine multiple domains on the same certificate and allow CORS server push.
- Upstream proxy requests to other origins
- TTL expiration of websites. Take down website automatically after N days or at a certain date.
- Scheduled launch to enable website at a certain date.
How much do people want to pay?
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Netlify
- Personal - Free
- Pro - $45/mo
- Business - $290/mo
- Enterprise - Enquire (contact us)
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Surge.sh
- Surge - Free
- Surge Plus - $13/mo per project
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Aerobatic
- 30 day free trial
- $15/mo
- $150/mo (contact us)