Is it normal to get contacted by someone selling upvotes @ $2/vote? From the actual email: "$2/upvote. Growth: $499 250 upvotes, 50 comments, 25 reviews, 10 followers (20% off). " Needless to say, I will never do this but will happily name & shame the sender.
Maker disclosure: same as above I work on StorageZen, a competitor to some of the tools mentioned below. Trying to keep this useful rather than a pitch; take the comparison with that in mind and go verify current pricing/features yourself before deciding anything.
Spent a while researching this properly (for our own comparison content, so bias noted) and the UK self-storage software market has a few real, structural differences worth knowing before you commit to anything not just feature checklists:
- SiteLink/Storable pricing is opaque you get a quote, not a published number. Fine if you have leverage to negotiate, annoying if you just want to compare options quickly.
- Stora has a 50-unit minimum, which rules it out for smaller independent operators outright regardless of how good the product is.
Maker disclosure: I'm one of the people building StorageZen] sharing this as background/context, not a pitch. Happy to answer questions either way.
Before this was a product, it was just us running a storage facility and losing hours every week to software that wasn't built for storage at all generic property tools bent sideways to sort-of fit, or spreadsheets doing the job properly instead.
The breaking point was always the same three things:
