[mLuby]

Why is the pricing per user? Is that what your costs are most dependent on? I bet not.

I'd argue $5/user is just teaser pricing on its way to PagerDuty's $21+/user.

Regardless, cool project—happy to see more competition.

[compumike]

Heii On-Call https://heiioncall.com/ has flat pricing regardless of team size.

To be pedantic, it's free for individuals / teams-of-one, so I guess you could write:

    def price_per_month(team_size)
      if team_size == 1
        0
      else
        32
      end
    end

Disclosure: I helped build it :)

EDIT: thanks to those of you signing up to try Heii On-Call! Let me know if you have any questions.

[urbandw311er]

wait, if you remove everyone from your team it costs $32 ?

[ratg13]

If you ever start a business selling anything at all, the very first thing you will need to realize is that you never base prices on how much something costs.

You base prices on what people are willing to pay.

[skeeter2020]

Like most business advice this sounds good as a one-liner, but isn't super accurate. There are lots of businesses that need to evaluate price elasticity and substitution which is more than finding the right point on the demand curve.

[smachiz]

Since when does anyone set or scale their price on their costs?

[LadyCailin]

Presumably when someone says that such a model frustrates them. But perhaps not.

[iso1631]

A big argument against LVT that people (often landlords, but many "socialists" too) is that rents will simply rise to reflect the extra cost to the landlord

Same with increase interest rates

It's certainly widely believed that "price = cost + %profit" rather than "price = level at which maximum profit will be achieved after factoring in market segregation"

[mads_quist]

On the pricing page I'm explaining that I think it's the fairest option. If you have a small team, you probably have "less money" than a huge team.

[quickthrower2]

Keeping the "I want it for 5 because my indie project makes no money" people happy is less lucrative than the "We are paying $1000/person in on call allowances, so what is $21 - nothing!" people.

[SanderNL]

You base your salary solely on living expenses?

[mLuby]

My employer sure does. Unless you're telling me that devs in major US cities are actually 2x better than rural US coders, who in turn are multiple times better than devs in poorer countries.