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I'd also like to make this available to my users.

2,500 posts per day, some edited a few times.

That's averaging 76,041 unique posts being spell checked each month...

What realistic price should this be?

The demo works very well btw, I am impressed. It's the pricing you need to think about.

You might want to consider pricing that reflects the type of site... how would you charge HN for the service? There are enough users here who would benefit from it. Does it really costs you X to spell check? Could you lower the costs to achieve a faster growth?



It does soon ramp up, $1500+ month maybe? At that point, it could become worthwhile to just dedicate your own time to implement the feature. Not that I like the idea of that when this service seems to do the job well, but not many startups have $20k+ a year to spend on spell checking...or should I say, no sane startup would spend $20k/yr on spell checking!


I think you may have missed the service plans page: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/commercial.slp

The top plan is for an estimated 500 writers, with 50,000 requests/month, and costs $200.00. That's significantly lower than $1500/month.

Beyond that, seems like you can work out a licensing deal to host your own server. Problem solved.

It doesn't seem like a huge price to pay for a startup that relies of well-written material.




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