If you join during the beta, we'll grandfather you in to the free plan (no-limits). I should make that more clear on the homepage though. Thanks.

Awesome! One line about that should do the trick.

Is the only way to "join" via Heroku? Or is there another place I can create an account?

Yep, but only for the MVP. Adding our own signup form is something we're working on.

Send me an email at firesize@helpful.io and I can manually hook you up with an account though.

This was built by our awesome community on Assembly. If you have any feedback or want to get involved and help us continue to build this, check out the project on Assembly: https://assembly.com/firesize

It has been a pretty crazy past few days, but I'm here (and trying to stay awake) to answer any questions.

Here's our blog post about launching: https://medium.com/@signupsumo/from-napkin-to-shipped-in-7-d...

Also checkout what we have planned next on our Assembly page: https://assembly.com/signupsumo

Well, this isn't really a question about the product, but I was wondering how you got such a clean looking site built so quickly (complete with logo)? I'm not design oriented at all, so I was just wondering what your approach was.

Also, how are you going to manage going from a usage-based (Clearbit is $99 for 12,500 queries) to time-based ($9/mo). Are you just hoping people won't use up all the queries, or are you going to throttle high usage users?

Thanks. I'm not sure if this is the best approach since I'm kinda rusty at front-end dev, but @Shea created some super slick, high-fidelity mockups for us. And then I just broke them down into a bootstrap theme and a few custom CSS components. The best approach for quick bootstrap theming seems to be just grabbing all the variables and overwriting the ones you want to change. Here's our monolithic variables file: https://github.com/asm-products/signupsumo-web/blob/master/a...

The pricing issue is one I've thought about a lot. We'll have to see how the first few months go. At the end of the day we'll probably be able to change either our free plan or upgraded plan limits to cover that $99. I'll write a blog post about this once I have more info though.

Ah sorry about that.

You might have heard of him from The American Life[1] or Planet Money[2]

1: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/

2: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

Here's the blog post about the switch as well: https://assembly.com/octobox/posts/octobox-is-going-open-sou...

Here's the commit to prove it :)

https://github.com/asm-helpful/helpful-web/commit/7376a442a7...

Good call. Just update the article and Helpful homepage. Thanks

Just fixed it. Thanks.

Here's the link: https://assembly.com

The conversation limits are for new conversations received per month. So for the Growing plan you can receive up to 1,000 conversations per month. Oh and don't worry too much about hitting the limit. We'll always accept your incoming messages and send you a friendly reminder to upgrade once you start going over. Does that answer everything?