While I understood (I think) the purpose of the site, I couldn't help but hold a reserved amount of skepticism. "What's in it for you?" underlined my consideration of using this service. It appears to be free. I don't see any ads that might supply you with ad revenue. I'm keenly aware it costs money to purchase a domain, host a site and buy an SSL certificate so obviously you'll incur costs--so how is it you plan to recoup them. I can't imagine I'm being provided a service out of the generosity of your kind heart. So then I start thinking, maybe they'll charge you to unlock it? Or worse, maybe this is not a protection service at all, maybe it's a mining scam, to steal ideas.
Perhaps I'm being overly skeptical, but I thought I'd share my thoughts so that you might be aware of them, and figure out a way to address them to alleviate some paranoia of your potential customers.
We are totally working on something else by the way... As you see in my blog post, I saw one of my ideas appear on another site... so we came up with this concept to save my ass on the first place. :)
And using the generous offer from dotcloud for beta users, this with the ssl is hosted for free.
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While I understood (I think) the purpose of the site, I couldn't help but hold a reserved amount of skepticism. "What's in it for you?" underlined my consideration of using this service. It appears to be free. I don't see any ads that might supply you with ad revenue. I'm keenly aware it costs money to purchase a domain, host a site and buy an SSL certificate so obviously you'll incur costs--so how is it you plan to recoup them. I can't imagine I'm being provided a service out of the generosity of your kind heart. So then I start thinking, maybe they'll charge you to unlock it? Or worse, maybe this is not a protection service at all, maybe it's a mining scam, to steal ideas.
Perhaps I'm being overly skeptical, but I thought I'd share my thoughts so that you might be aware of them, and figure out a way to address them to alleviate some paranoia of your potential customers.
Here is my corresponding blog post: http://hagyma.posterous.com/entering
We are totally working on something else by the way... As you see in my blog post, I saw one of my ideas appear on another site... so we came up with this concept to save my ass on the first place. :)
And using the generous offer from dotcloud for beta users, this with the ssl is hosted for free.