39 Euro/month?! As an individual developer I get Rubymine for $69 and can use it as much as I want.
What's up with the per day pricing? Who wants to pay his IDE + workspace on a n per day basis? This is about the strangest pricing I've ever seen.
Well, the idea is this: Normally you have all your stuff on your own computer. You'll install all the software you need, like your database and runtimes and any SDK. With Cloud9 all that stuff lives in the Cloud. It's hosted and it's accessible for you from anywhere.
So, like any cloud service, the hosting costs money. We are offering this for free when you work on open source projects. But when you are doing a commercial project for a customer and you like the benefits of being in the cloud with not only your editor, but your entire test environment, then you pay something for it. One of the advantages of cloud services is that you have flexibility, so with the pay per day we offer the flexibility to only pay for the use of the platform when you need it. Our thought is that if you're doing a project that makes you a couple of hundred dollars a day, 50 cents for the editor is not much if it saves you a lot of time.
With that said, we still have some way to go before all the time savers we have planned are in Cloud9. We're working on a very cool Git UI, great deployment integration and many many other features. More important for you is the Ruby support that is upcoming, including step through debugging. In the mean time use cloud9 for your open source projects and see how it feels for you.
Best of luck javruben - you'll have a lot of haters who won't understand the value prop, so you have a lot of difficult marketing ahead of you.
I thought about going into this market awhile ago, but there's a huge battle to be fought against ~20 year old editors that have been around the block and have become an external growth to some developers.
That said, you guys are headed in the right direction, good job charging and getting honest feedback on the utility so early. I just hope you're able to differentiate between 'features' and 'benefits' while going forward.
