If Dropbox Used GitHub’s Pricing Plan
Dropbox is targeting a B2C market and started with poor twenty-somethings.<p>Github, and virtually every other thing that costs more than $20 a month, targets primarily a B2B market.  It might be popular with some local poor 20-somethings, but honestly, you're just an infection vector to get your day job on board.<p>The pricing is designed to extract maximum value out of business customers.  If they have 125 simultaneous projects, they officially have More Money Than God.  "The price of a residential Internet connection" is not a pricing anchor to them.  (Should they need one, they're probably going to be persuaded by "We have 500 man-years of labor in our projects, one man-month costs us $15k, lemme break out Excel for a minute, oh it seems <i>all my options cost pigeon poop</i>.")<p>I strongly, strongly encourage you to listen to the Mixergy video about Wufoo or talk to anyone who runs a SaaS business if you do not understand where most of the money is likely getting made.  That topmost plan which costs $$$$$ <i>prints money</i>, primarily from people who <i>don't need all that it offers</i> and <i>couldn't care less</i> because it costs less than pigeon poop on their scales.<p>If you don't use Github for your projects because $100 is a lot of money for you <i>that's perfectly fine</i> for Github because <i>it does not make them meaningfully worse off</i>.