My product died because it got way too many users – here's how (nubela.co) 9 points by nubela 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] skunkworker 7y ago ↗ The “how” of the title is how they got so many users, not how it died from so many users. For that here’s the post mortemhttps://giki.wiki/@nubela/Kloudsec/Post-Mortem [–] robertbalent 7y ago ↗ > With around 2000 websites live, we were paying 10,000 USD/mo in server fees.Isn’t it quite high?
[–] robertbalent 7y ago ↗ > With around 2000 websites live, we were paying 10,000 USD/mo in server fees.Isn’t it quite high?
[–] ganeshkrishnan 7y ago ↗ Tldr: over dosed on free server from IBMYou should have calculated the overhead per user and then created a pricing strategy based on that [–] brighter2morrow 7y ago ↗ Did they not have a business person at this company?
[–] hotdox 7y ago ↗ How can be this user flagged. He posts 8 submissions during 11 days for his personal blog. I see this as shameless self-promotion. Correct me If I wrong in my valuation.
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Isn’t it quite high?
You should have calculated the overhead per user and then created a pricing strategy based on that