EDIT/Update — OP made it clear that this can be self hosted, which wasn’t clear in the pricing sheet. I would recommend updating.

— deleting my previous comment -

Sorry if it isn't clear. Self-hosting is 100% free and without any limitation.

As for the cloud version, I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808121

TLDR is that the cloud version hasn't been our primary focus yet and we put a high pricing on purpose that is not the final pricing, while we figure out the good pricing strategy. As of today everything is free without any limitation, we don't enforce any limit. And when we rollout the real pricing, it will be more compelling

I stand very much corrected and wasn’t trying to make an allegation…

Your pricing page says pretty much the opposite and is quite confusing — it literally just shows “Free” vs. “Grow” and no option for self hosting made clear

Thanks for that eye-opener. I read the comment and just believed it, would have closed the tab with no further interest if you hadn't been on the ball and replied within minutes, in time for it to be there when I opened this comments page.

I've noticed previously in life that if I don't correct an allegation, people will just assume the to-me-obvious-falsehood is true by my silent assent. I didn't know that I, too, fall for this stuff despite being aware of the problem.

This is a great read — appreciate the valley of “phase 2: too many things to prioritize” which is where I see most product teams get stuck - trying to over-index on being data-driven, or on MRR targets…

The indie hacker approach to this is constantly develop, deploy and monitor. If the feature is used, improve it. If the feature is unsuccessfully used, improve it. If the feature isn't used, kill it. This is heavily data-driven and requires intuition for users' desires (what they want, how they want it) and your product. The latter takes years to learn.

Indie hacker? Isn’t that just the approach of a good development team, solo or multi-person, in general?

When working for companies the development process is longer and requires input from multiple stakeholders outside of the development team, e.g. product manager, project manager, copy writes. There is a substantial analysis before starting the development. As an independent hacker (indie hacker) you don't have those resources but instead increased agility and speed.

Startup culture ‘assembly line’ product development IMO.

You are procrastinating. Your psychology is preventing you somehow from doing the work, because you have some inherent fear that is preventing you from getting started.

I am guilty of this too - I think we all are. It’s far easier to focus on productivity tools/processes because it feels productive, thus giving you feedback without actually doing the harder job of the actual work, and thus perhaps realizing your underlying fear of failure or fear of being judged / etc.

I agree with this. Some other reasons could be:

1) you are afraid you will fail

2) you actually don't want to do that project. This could be a lot of different reasons: e.g. you get excited about ideas, but quickly lose interest etc.

They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

That last line is so true - sounds like a coping mechanism. Reminded me of this Substack post:

https://theteardown.substack.com/p/notes-about-notes

Edit: coping

> They say everybody essentially writes about themselves, in this case very true.

Can you elaborate on this? Curious what you mean about how (in this instance) the OP is writing about themselves?

I meant I was writing about myself, these are my typical issues.