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Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback.

Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without being influenced by that info. I was pleasantly surprised to find that many of those who responded were willing to pay more than the amount I had in mind, which makes me feel good about the value of the products I offer via Rails Kits.

The OAuth Kit has now been priced and released, but I'll leave the survey open a little longer to let a few more folks get the coupon. :)

Today I read about determining pricing by surveying your customers, and it just so happens that I have a new product ready for pricing, so I thought I'd try it out.

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I've been interested in simplifying lately.... using Chef (solo) to configure boxes, switching to Postgres from MySQL to get decent text search without having to run sphinx, etc. My goal recently has been to cut down the number of moving parts in my deployments to make my life a little easier. So when a client project required background processing, I re-evaluated my stock approach to see if I could simplify a bit.

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