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No offense but I feel like I'm being dishonestly marketed to from your landing page

The biggest thing is the tagline is "Simple, free version control" but after checking your pricing (which is buried in the footer) you have tiered pricing just like everyone else in this space, albeit with a different pricing scheme. Obviously it costs money to run and I would never expect a service like this to be completely free, but why pretend like your differentiator is being free?

Another smaller thing is your 100% SLA. Clicking through to the fine print again, you offer 5% of the cost back per 30 min downtime per month. 30 min per month is "only" between 3 & 4 nines (plus even if you miss that you only refund 5% of the cost not a full refund so it's a pretty soft promise anyway). As with the price I have no problem with the actual SLA, 99.95% uptime seems reasonable, I just feel like you're trying to trick me as someone coming to your site.



To be honest we have been focusing on our app and service more then our marketing techniques.

The points you have made are valid and we will be addressing as soon as possible.

The SLA is inline with other competitors but maybe it should be more a 'refund policy'.

So far we have not had any downtime.


Makes sense, I get that getting the product right for the first customers is the top priority. Just wanted to share my initial reaction. Good luck with the service.




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