Show HN: DocSend, but Made 10x Cheaper

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11 points by deqian 2 days ago | 7 comments

Hey HN, founder of Peony here. Most founders use DocSend to share investment or sales docs and have to pay $65 to $300 a month to get the security and analytics features. It pains me to see startups getting ripped off when the availability of technologies such as Clickhouse makes real time analytics almost a trivial feature to implement in 2024.

We think it's time to end the carnage and democratize the technology. We set ourselves a high bar: we don't want to build another DocSend - we want it to be a far more superior product and also 10x cheaper.

After a couple of months of work, I'm proud to share with you Peony - a first preview into what we believe will be the future of file sharing. In addition to the analytics and security features you'd expect coming from DocSend, we built Peony to be flexible and adaptable across all your file sharing needs and give you the ability to deeply personalize your file share per recipient.

I'd love to hear what you think?

We are the Prometheus stealing fire from the guarded Olympian mountains. Help us win the rebellion.

laalshaitaan 2 days ago | prev | next |

how is this better from an open source + self-hostable solution like Papermark?

like the ui though!

deqian 2 days ago | root | parent |

Seems that the other option is built for engineers and developers to add new functionality to an existing website. Will be super useful if you are looking to build! But if you are just sharing files or can't be bothered to learn the DevOps and 10+ technologies you need to make everything work, I don't think it'll be as useful.

Peony is built for founders, sales team, marketing folks, VCs, business owners, and regular folks like you and I. Even if you don't write a single line of code, you can still get a far more superior file sharing experience and better security without breaking your bank.

Hope this helps :)