Ask HN: Why isn’t there a backlash around charging for security features?
by eranation on Hacker News.
There is a very common (dark?) pattern I see employed by practically everyone in the industry, instead of charging for differentiating features, we seem to accept that it’s ok to charge for security features as premium features in the pretense that these are “Enterprise Features”. I am not here to name and shame but you know how it works. Role Based Access Control, SSO integration, API access to audit logs, MFA are presented as “premium enterprise features”, why isn’t there a bigger backlash? Why is this practice not pushed back by everyone? The startup I’m building, we are committing to provide SSO/SAML/OIDC, audit logs, advanced RBAC etc for free for everyone, we want people to pay for actual differentiating features. Am I missing something here?