Comment by zmmmmm
1 day ago
Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for the project after the offer ends.
Which online product gives away 6 months of a $100 per month subscription?
Jetbrains gives away for free infinity years of a $180+ per year subscription (its more expensive in the first year or for orgs)[1] for open source authors, students, and more. Sure, the per-month price tag is not as high but after year 4 you saved much more.
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/store/?section=students&billing=ye...
Though it doesn't cost them anything of note to provide this other than maybe some lost sales to devs who would have bought it.
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Every 2nd SaaS with a startup plan? I used intercom/customer.io/segment/amplitude/mixpanel for free for a year.
The marginal cost of all of those is definitely much lower than for Codex, though
An online product that was brought into existence by processing all the open source software in the world and makes money by selling the resulting knowledge base, should be accessible free of charge by the producers of that open source software.
The price might be more commoditized if OpenAI kept true to the original mission that lives on, albeit vestigially, in their name.
Make it $200/month subscription which actually gives you access to O($1K) worth of codex compute. Even at the face value it is very generous, IMO.
6 email addresses gives you 6 one months trials …
Where am I going to find multiple+email@adress.es?
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you need a non-voip phone number for codex SMS now, as well.
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Since when did they have trials?
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That's what I was thinking, but the downvoters are hunting today.
They're doing everything possible to drive up their MAU before their IPO.
No good deed goes unpunished