Shailesh Chauhan

I've been delaying a price hike for months out of fear of mass churn. We finally decided to bump our rates by 30% and gave current users a two month grace period before the change kicks in. We sent a simple direct email explaining that our server costs went up and surprisingly not a single person canceled.

But now I'm wondering if giving people a two month window just leaves the door open for them to shop around for alternatives.

When you bumped your pricing how long of a buffer did you give existing clients?

You can have the cleanest codebase in the world, but if a developer has to scroll past three paragraphs of fluff just to find the quickstart command, the repo is getting closed. The last few repos I starred all had one thing in common: I could copy-paste the install command and see it running locally in under sixty seconds. Beyond that it's all about trust in the maintainer.

Have you ever un-starred a project because the repo went completely silent after a big launch?