But we can’t wait for long, we have customers who can’t stand it for long
I come back to my point. Blynk offered a product with a scalable price plan. I assume that the customers, such as myself (others might either agree or disagree here on the forum), bought into the plan with the understanding and trust that the plan had a long term price structure. Blynk (with no notice at all to give customers a reasonable amount of time to expand the plan if they wanted to) changed the price structure to the detriment of some of those who bought into it initially. It’s not a small change for me - it’s a huge change. Would all of those initial customers have bought into it if they had known the plan would change so soon - some might - some might not have. @Pavlo is this fair and equitable? Is it unreasonable for me to feel a bit hoodwinked? I repeat my suggestion: reinstate the plan at least for those who initially bought into it.
If it’s not in 2021 then I’m a bit shocked. @Pavlo Can you give a reason why not? It was pretty quick to change it before. Why so long now?
@koaiwi I believe our agreement is fulfilled as you have all the devices you paid for: 5 promo devices + 10 devices of a PLUS plan.
If it’s easier for everyone: we ran out of all one-off devices. We don’t have them anymore. And because we haven’t seen any demand compared to other products, this particular one was discontinued. A less than a dozen of folks who managed to buy a few devices were just lucky enough.
@ebda3 If you have customers waiting - get a PRO plan and charge your customers with whatever is needed to make it a viable business. If it doesn’t work for your company, I’m really sorry, but at the moment this is the only business solution we can offer (and it actually works really well for companies like yours).
Please forgive me, but I won’t be spending more time on this thread as I just have nothing more to add.
I guess its goodbye. A good gig whilst it lasted… All good things must come to an end. I wish you good luck with the new direction you are steering your business.
Bad news, unfortunately…
I was considering purchasing a plan so I can start migrating all my diy devices to the new platform, but, in order to be able to use the platform for 14 devices, do I really have to pay 588 USD per year? While that’s resonable for a business, I just need to monitor my stuff. You can buy plenty of ready made iOT devices with that money…each year. Are there any plans for makers? Can you actually make the difference?
I remember you were able to purchase devices for each plan. Am I wrong? Am I missing something?What is going on?
Yep seems to be the case. At the moment you need to spend a lot of money to get over 10 devices. See @Pavlo response above. Apparently they ran out of stock of the additional devices and ironically there is no demand so they have discontinued the product. 
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Sounds like they tried to keep businesses away from abusing it. That’s the only escuse I can find for them.
@Dmitriy The new plan will offer the same resources and capabilities of actual PLUS ? Because I think a better scalability is needed for some of the PRO resources (User management, holes, etc.)
Correct.
Could you please explain more?
Adding another PLUS option will help makers that want more devices. I’m planning to use Blynk in a commercial product (vending machine). For this market and for my application, I can’t find a way to grow (and expand) without paying a lot of money for a PRO subscription.
And I suppose the new PLUS plan will become 2 times more expensive. How much is that going to cost?
Yes. ~12$ month or 118$ annually. Or ~0.5$ per device per month
PRO price is pretty low. In fact, all Blynk 2.0 thing was about PRO plan and now it is 10 times cheaper than our cheapest White Label plan. Making it even more low doesn’t make much sense for us, we just wouldn’t generate enough money to operate. Software development these days is super expensive.
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The way I see it is that your business is kinda failing because your only customers are the diy makers…
I don’t see why you would ask those prices from the makers if you would have enough business customers to use your platform and keep your business alife.
In my opinion, limiting the users(to 1 or 2) makes more sense than limiting the number of devices. I believe that should have more value the than the device numbers or widgets.
Hobies are likely to become business.
If I had the chance to spot some bugs before, I am sure many other makers did so much more for you and this platform.
If you have no interest in encouraging the makers to use your platform, then you clearly rely on them, instead of business customers.
Your platform was basically free for makers. Coming from that to those prices is a big step for any maker.
You’re wrong here. Our business accelerating more and more from a year to year and this is because we focus on business features in the first place and not DIY features, as we did in 1.0.
Because investors are interested only in recurring revenues.
Yes and no. There are many different use cases. Some businesses have many devices, some many users, some both. It really depends. There is no silver bullet.
From the data we have in 1.0 - unlikely.
So because we take money for our service we have no interest in encouraging the makers to use our platform?
Yes, and that’s why it failed and we have to shut down it. We’re building a business here and we’re not a charity.
I appreciate your answers and I understand your point apart from the charity part. ~600$ is not makers price in any rich country. Affordable and charity is not the same thing.
But business is business I guess.
I guess ~150 USD per year is a bearable price for 20 devices, even in my country . Unless you limit other stuff. Have you decided the rest of the limitations? How about the widgets? Any other details you can reveal about the new plans?
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Yes. As this is the business plan, it is designed for businesses, not makers. What makes you think it is a maker plan? Most of the features that are present in PRO are business features - permission management, user management, org management, etc.
The Plus 20 plan would be the same, just for 20 devices. There are many limitations, however, they are pretty big, very unlikely you got hit them. Like 120 widgets per dashboard.
The curent plan says its 80 widgets for 10 devices and you mentioned 120.
How much is that going to be eventually?
At the moment it is 100. 120 it was in the prev version.