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infodroid
But what's the catch?
Rauchg
Co-founder of ▲ZEIT here. There's no catch. If you deploy with https://zeit.co/now, DNS is free.

Here's a little .gif showing the entire process if you're curious: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/746093788272037888.

base
How are you going to make money?
Rauchg
We charge individuals and teams according to their growing capacity needs (number of deployments, bandwidth, storage, etc).

Check out https://zeit.co/now#pricing.

placeybordeaux
I'd guess thats what they were asking about when they said "what's the catch?"
infodroid
Thanks, I like that you are supporting open source with a free dedicated plan.
akerl_
Pretty confused. You said there was no catch, but it looks to have pretty low caps on bandwidth and number of monthly deployments, among other things.

It still looks like a really interesting product, but it seems disingenuous to say there's no catch when clearly it's not totally free.

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kerkeslager
How are you planning to fund this long-term?
Rauchg
Please see my reply above.
KiniK
now alias [my id] [my domain].com ⏎ > [my domain].com is a custom domain. > Verifying the DNS settings for [my domain].com (see https://zeit.world for help) > Detected zeit.world nameservers! Configuring records. > Error! Custom domains are only enabled for premium accounts. Please upgrade at https://zeit.co/account.
DamnableNook
The post title and linked page don't make it obvious that this isn't a standalone service; it's a feature of their "now" hosting service. So you can't use it for your app unless you host it with "now".

"now" has a free, highly limited tier for open source projects, but their standard tier is $15/month.

Rauchg
We've been getting lots of great feedback and usage on our OSS tier. Improvements are coming. Many of the limits are in place to prevent abuse.
newjersey
I think the worst part is limiting the number of deployments you can do per month.

> 20 FREE deploys per month

This isn't good. I think the latest meta is that We want people to deploy early and deploy often. If something escapes code review (which lets face it: we make mistakes and is probably just two or more "Looks Good To Me") we want to catch it and deploy a fix as quickly as possible.

Do deploys really cost that much in terms of compute resources for you? Or is it just an arbitrary differentiator?

ymse
The title is misleading. It's not a DNS service, but a node.js hosting platform similar to Heroku.

Custom domain is not included in the free tier: https://zeit.co/now#pricing

If you're on a paid plan, you'll get Geo-DNS for "free".