Very good point ! Google, please don't let us down. On Sep 1, 5:42 pm, de Witte <[email protected]> wrote: > Google, > > What are you doing? From the outside it looks like your team has no > experience in how to deliver, market and sell a product. > > 1. You *know *that people will start screaming if their pricing is > raising from 300$ to 3000$. > 2. You *know *that beforehand by analyzing the effect of new pricing on > your existing customers. > 3. You *know *that people will leave because of this reason. > 4. You *know *that people are making business plans with GAE, they will > move with these numbers. > > So why? > > Why didn't you contact them before, assisting them to make their app > efficient and tuning your own model? If the community knows that there are > large apps running on the cloud at a cost efficient plan, then it gives them > *faith* to tune their own app. > > Suggestion: > > - Put the python users on the old pricing model until 2.7 is ready. > - Contact all your 300$ -> 3000$ customers today! > - Make a new community group and add select 20 of these large customers, > work with them closely to optimize your pricing model and their > application. > Make the progress visible in this new group. > - Do not enable the new pricing model until 70% of these selected > customers are reasonable happy. > > Your product has a lot of potential, don't mess it up, due bad management. > > Any additional feedback is welcome. > > -Wendel
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