(posting some extras as comments since the original post is already way too long)
What's the pricing going to be like?
Pricing is still very much a work in progress. Feedback from early customers will play a major factor here. Here's my current thinking:
Reflame should be free to use for individuals deploying apps that live on the default *.reflame.dev subdomains. Deploying apps to custom domains will probably require a monthly fee, which will enable custom domains on all apps of the user (i.e. there won't be an additional fee for having more than 1 app with custom domains). For organizations, there will be a simple monthly fee per member, for any number of apps with custom domains in that org.
I'm planning to avoid usage-based pricing for the deployment side of Reflame if at all possible, because I don’t think it leads to a good alignment of incentives. I don't want to financially disincentivize customers from deploying as often as they want (within reasonable limits to protect against DoS), and I really don't want to be financially disincentivized to make customers' deploys faster over time. Every usage-based CI platform out there benefits financially from our builds getting slower, so have no financial incentive to build anything to make them faster. I believe usage-based pricing for CI and the diametrically opposed incentives it introduced has been a huge driver of stagnation in the industry.
What's the pricing going to be like?
Pricing is still very much a work in progress. Feedback from early customers will play a major factor here. Here's my current thinking:
Reflame should be free to use for individuals deploying apps that live on the default *.reflame.dev subdomains. Deploying apps to custom domains will probably require a monthly fee, which will enable custom domains on all apps of the user (i.e. there won't be an additional fee for having more than 1 app with custom domains). For organizations, there will be a simple monthly fee per member, for any number of apps with custom domains in that org.
I'm planning to avoid usage-based pricing for the deployment side of Reflame if at all possible, because I don’t think it leads to a good alignment of incentives. I don't want to financially disincentivize customers from deploying as often as they want (within reasonable limits to protect against DoS), and I really don't want to be financially disincentivized to make customers' deploys faster over time. Every usage-based CI platform out there benefits financially from our builds getting slower, so have no financial incentive to build anything to make them faster. I believe usage-based pricing for CI and the diametrically opposed incentives it introduced has been a huge driver of stagnation in the industry.