Thanks for the feedback and fwiw I completely agree. We can do much better in this area. We're a team of engineers so we struggle with marketing and copy.
My company - roadie.io - offers SaaS Backstage. We're the second largest contributor after Spotify and we're co-hosting the first ever BackstageCon at KubeCon NA this year.
Get in touch if you ever want to discuss Backstage. Email in bio.
Roadie is a VC-backed DevTools startup based in Europe. We are building a SaaS version of the popular open-source project backstage.io. Backstage is a service catalog and developer portal created by Spotify.
Our engineering team is small but strong. Mostly senior ex-Workday and Spotify. We have raised multiple-millions of dollars from US VCs and have customers despite being founded only 9 months ago.
I think it's the idea that if you price your software too low then it's value will be perceived as low. You then have customers paying a low price for a low (perceived) value product and you're into a death spiral.
Most of them yes. Lots of innocent people are caught up in this too. For example, many women joined the site to try and find out if their husbands were having an affair. Other people had third parties use their pictures and emails used to sign up.