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Great dude, who genuinely wants to make development better. Polybit seems particularly cool for…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"12088144","joshstrange","This looks really interesting but I personally really dislike the pricing, maybe others will love it but to me it's nearly impossible to guess how much this will cost me. When I…",{"value":63,"source":52,"evidence":64},"Front-end developers, mobile developers and designers building apps",[65],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"value":67,"source":52,"evidence":68},"Pay-as-you-go credits; packages from $9 to $999; 1,000 free credits on registration; database queries and deployments free during beta",[69,73,77],{"id":70,"by":71,"text":72},"12087725","saganus","I didn't found the pricing info either until I played around in the terminal, which gives us this: $ pricing Polybit offers pay-as-you-go services. Action | Cost…",{"id":74,"by":75,"text":76},"12088513","Roodgorf","I'm confused on my credit balance after signing up. The pricing printout shows a 1,000(x2) for the registration tier, and below the table seems to indicate that these (x2)…",{"id":78,"by":11,"text":79},"12089468","Thanks for the insight. :) I don't disagree. Database queries don't use credits right now. We're going to be playing around with what makes the most sense for our customers.…",{"value":81,"source":52,"evidence":82},"Make backend development easier and remove the pain of standing up APIs",[83,87],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"12087392","jamesjyu","Keith is awesome. I've met him a few times to chat about Polybit and he is seriously dedicated to making a great developer product and solving the pain of standing up a backend…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},[89],{"value":90,"source":52,"evidence":91},"Node.js",[92],{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"12088996","joshdickson","Node JS developer here. The idea of the project is great. 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Nice touch",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"12089988","dazhbog","I am surprised Nodal still uses 90% of Nordic Semiconductor's logo :\u002F Love the website design!",{"value":112,"source":52,"evidence":113},"Maker is responsive and approachable",[114,115],{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},[117,132,143],{"value":118,"source":52,"evidence":119},"Credit-based pricing is hard to predict and expensive at scale",[120,124,128,131],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"12088541","ebbv","I realize this style of pricing is the new hotness and I get why it's appealing for the company providing the service, but as a developer this is really unappealing to me. The…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"12090298","janekm","How often do the credits refresh? Once per day? Per month? If it's per month it feels very expensive to me especially at the lower tiers compared to the number of transactions…",{"id":129,"by":126,"text":130},"12090372","And another example since IoT is mentioned on the website. Imagine I'm selling a temperature sensor gadget that reports once per minute. That's 2 credits * 60 * 24 * 30 per…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":133,"source":52,"evidence":134},"Pricing not visible on the website",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"12087626","mxuribe","The premise of this is a great idea. The sign up is pretty neat - def. suited to expected audience\u002Fusers. However, no pricing info? 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[1]http:\u002F\u002Fi.imgur.com\u002Fty8PZT9.png The console logs the keydown…",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"12087442","throwawayReply","I'm on Windows\u002FFirefox the console only echoes back missing characters.",{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"12089128","stockkid","feedback: the console in the home page doesn't seem to do anything. (Chrome Android)",[163,171,178],{"value":164,"source":52,"evidence":165},"Bandwidth-based or flat-fee pricing",[166,170],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"12088932","puddintane","No your not crazy at all! Sometimes it is better to do many smaller requests versus one bigger request, and it would be nice to see a pricing structure based on bandwidth at least.",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"value":172,"source":52,"evidence":173},"Fix copy-paste in registration and console",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"12087573","webXL","Pretty cool stuff. I got stuck a bit in the registration though. I always use a password manager and paste in my passwords. 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