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Sean Stevens

ClearPrice — Glassdoor for SaaS pricing.

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Time is the most valuable thing at a startup, and ClearPrice will let you know right way whether or not it's worth using that time talking to a sales person or going through a demo. You'll also know if make sure you're paying a fair price for the service you're getting by letting you see what other companies your size are paying.

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Amrit Aacharya
Don't know if its just me, but I was expecting to see price data of some companies that you had already crawled and stored instead of links to their pricing page. Do guide me in case i'm missing something. Kudos for the idea @theseanz
Sean Stevens
Maker
@amrit_aacharya1 @rrhoover Thanks for the feedback! I had thought about it but to me the real value is the uncrawlable data - ie the company-specific deals people make with SaaS providers. Do you think having some already-available data would encourage people to submit data?
Amrit Aacharya
@rrhoover @theseanz most SaaS companies are / should be open about their Pricing unless it is an enterprise customizable plan. Worst case , they should be open to atleast a price range.
Sean Stevens
Maker
@rrhoover @amrit_aacharya1 That's exactly the pain point I'm trying to address. While some companies don't list any pricing, a lot of companies do have some pricing, but then "Call for Pricing" for their enterprise level plans. It would be nice to know what other people are paying before you commit to a phone call/demo/endless email chain only to find out it's way out of your price range.
Jeremy Bauer
@theseanz @amrit_aacharya1 I was also expecting to see the actual pricing info. I can generally find pricing info on companies' websites myself, so I was hoping that this would allow me to easily view pricing plans for different tools/services without having to go to each individual company's website. If this showed the pricing info, it would also be good to use as a quick comparison or a refresher. I've looked at pricing for a lot of different tools/services over the years and occasionally like to revisit them to see if they fill a need, but I don't always want to go through the whole website again. Also, if users could submit the pricing plan info, I would totally do this. It would help me a lot in addition to helping others.
Sean Stevens
Maker
ClearPrice was built to scratch my own itch. I spent a few years running my own startup and helping get another startup going as one of the first employees (we went from 3 employees to almost 40). A lot of my time went into finding pricing for various services, which is a huge waste when there's so much to do at an early stage or growing startup. I didn't want to spend time on demos and phone calls just to find out it was out of my budget. Time is the most valuable thing at a startup, and ClearPrice will let you know right way whether or not it's worth using that time talking to a sales person or going through a demo. You'll also know if you're paying a fair price for the service you're getting by letting you see what other companies your size are paying.
Tom Bielecki
@theseanz I'm so glad you built this. I posted this idea several times online for feedback and didn't get much, I think this really has legs.
Sean Stevens
Maker
@tombielecki Thanks Tom! Funny that our paths cross again, post-New Matter.
Leandro
This looks great, good idea! Any chance of adding a list, to select companies from on front page rather than just search? Instinctively this is what I look for. Just my 2c.
Sean Stevens
Maker
@leandrobthomas Should I do a recently-updated list, or list all or most of the companies in the database?
Leandro
@theseanz I'd say pick a few companies that most people know, just to show that you have some meat in your database. I'd think, oh cool - let's see what else they have, then I'd use search. And to mirror what has been already said by @amrit_aacharya1, definitely add pricing to your site, as well has show deals. That way you have it all in once place.
Ben Summers
@theseanz great idea! @amrit_aacharya1 to be honest I was hoping the same! However, you need to get it out and hope it strikes a chord with some people that will then contribute. It would be good to auto crawl the websites (where there is a pricing URL submitted) so that there is an "RRP" type price in there. You can then show stats of discount percentage etc to compliment the low/med/high. I think separating out the contract lengths so you have a true comparison of costs would be beneficial. Obviously a yearly upfront price will be cheaper pcm than a month to month. Great job!
Sean Stevens
Maker
@innocey Thanks! And yeah, the idea was to put it out in the world and get people to submit data. I didn't want to seed it with fake or "friend of a friend says" type data, which is why it's sparse at the moment. Also thanks for the feedback! I'm currently capturing contract length, but not doing anything with the data yet. I thought the most immediate, interesting, and easiest to whip up was low/med/high and I can start adding more complex ways for people to interact with the data later.
Ben Summers
@theseanz Sounds good! I hope enough people get stuck in and begin to populate it, to really bring it to life!
Joshua Dance
Love this idea. If you look on Quora, there are tons of 'how much does x software' cost questions.
Drew Shepard
Genius! Sweetheart deals are all too common in the SaaS industry. This would be a great tool to verify your getting the best deal. Great idea @theseanz💡
Nick Saggese
Going beyond pricing and looking at overall utility gained versus price paid would give people not only an idea of what their usage patterns might look like before buying, but may also allow one to benchmark software against its competitors. Lining up different vendors price structures in order to weigh them against one another has always been a difficulty given that they are often intentionally different. Distilled human opinion like that which could come from your site would help form a more universal metric. Could be an interesting alternative to the current B2B SAAS review sites of the moment like G2Crowd, Capterra, etc.
Greg Cohn
Genius - I will totally use this @theseanz! Wait... how much will it cost??
Sean Stevens
Maker
@gregcohn Thanks Greg! It's free for life if you submit some data.
Jack Smith
why do you use surveymonkey as an example, but then you don't actually have any pricing data on it? I'd suggest seeding this with information and having examples that you actually have pricing for
Sean Stevens
Maker
@_jacksmith totally get that, buy unfortunately I don't have any pricing data, as I'm working as a solo dev at the moment and I didn't want to put in fake data. I was hoping the PH community would add some data.