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Fair question. The short version is: the desktop app and CLI are free and always will be; optional cloud & AI services will cost money. Working w/ .xlsx files
by matthewgapp 2mo ago
Fair question. The short version is: the desktop app and CLI are free and always will be; optional cloud & AI services will cost money.
Working w/ .xlsx files shouldn't cost money, and we think people should be able to use their own AI.
We expect to charge orgs/enterprises for a cloud product around governance, and for AI where/when it makes sense. We also plan to make some money when large companies use Nobie for training or to power their products.
Right now, though, we’re entirely focused on making the desktop app and CLI hands down the best xlsx experience in the world. The paid cloud product comes later.
- matthewgapp 2mo agoAlso, we've designed the product so it costs us zero dollars to run :) having zero marginal cost is nice and allows us to do things that others can't
- htrp 2mo agoIs this because your free customers bring their own ai/tokens?
- njaremko 2mo agoYeah, we're not providing subsidized AI to people. It costs us nothing to give people a great, computer-use friendly, native spreadsheet app
- bathtub365 2mo agoHow does that work, do you not pay the developers who build and maintain this software?
- njaremko 2mo agoI'm one of those developers :) I linked in this thread, and Matt replied above in this thread, but we charge companies making >$100M in revenue for using Nobie to provide a service to users, or for using it to help train models.