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Tierfill
Plan shared link capacity across priority tiers without displacing payers
- Score
- 44
- confidence 48
- Evidence
- 4
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 0
- named in sources
- First version
- 25 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop app
- PWA: runs in the browser, installs on Mac and Windows
- Market since
- 1998
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop app: Network operators plan capacity and run what-if scenarios on dense tier maps and dashboards requiring sustained focus and keyboard work. Sample screens on a computer, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Link overview
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About this appAI proposal
Tierfill helps network operators and ISPs share one link among customers on different priority tiers. Enter each customer's tier and committed bandwidth, and Tierfill shows what is placed, what is left, and where a new commitment would push a paying customer out.
It is built for operators who sell low-priority capacity, such as backups or scientific data transfers, to keep links full. Today that is managed by hand and adjusted when conflicts appear. Tierfill checks each change before you commit it, so high-priority traffic is not displaced and low-priority customers keep what they paid for.
The first version is a planning and decision tool. It does not touch your routers. You use it to decide what to sell, what to accept and when to add capacity.
- Tagline
- Fill every link. Displace no one.
- Voice
- ClearPreciseCalm
- Why this name
- Tier points to service tiers, and fill points to filling links with traffic. Two plain syllable groups, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Tier-aware capacity map
See each shared link in layers by priority, with committed, used and free bandwidth for every customer tier.
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Check before you sell
Enter a new commitment and see at once whether it fits or which paying customers it would displace.
No member yet
Protected guarantees
Mark each customer's guaranteed share. Tierfill flags any plan that cuts below it or displaces a higher tier.
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Conflict alerts
Get a warning when imported usage shows a priority clash coming, before anyone is evicted.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. These tiers are a starting point to test, in line with the stated idea of pricing by bandwidth managed or number of tiers.
Starter
Free
- 1 link
- Up to 3 priority tiers
- Check-before-you-sell tool
Operator
$99 a month
- Up to 10 links
- Unlimited tiers
- CSV usage import
- Conflict alerts
- What-if scenarios
Network
Contact us
- Unlimited links
- Priced by bandwidth managed
- Team access
- Priority support
Would you pay Operator · $99 a month?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Operators use Tierfill internally for planning. The optional plan report goes to colleagues, not to a wider audience, so use does not spread by itself.
- Do they become customers?
- Reached through direct sales and content. What would have to be tested is whether small operators pay for planning alone, without live network control.
- First customers
- Small regional ISPs and research-network operators who sell low-priority capacity such as backup or science transfers on shared links, with one to three network staff.
- Where to reach them
- Network operator forums: Share a free link-fit checker and talk with operators about overselling pain.
- Direct outreach: Email small ISP network leads with a worked example built from their own tier structure.
- First milestone
- Five small operators using it on a real link, and two of them paying, within 90 days.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimNetwork operators accept payment from customers for low-priority capacity (scientific data, backups) that has loose timing requirements.
- Public claimNetwork operators fully utilize shared links by filling low-priority slots, so there is no spare capacity to accommodate unexpected traffic without displacing paying customers.
- Public claimOverselling or misallocation of bandwidth among priority tiers causes a direct financial impact by displacing other paying customers.
- Public claimThe problem arises in real networks with multiple paying customers at different priority levels competing for the same capacity.
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Allocation engineConstraint-check logic in TypeScriptTier rules and displacement checks need a tested, deterministic calculation.
- This app · Usage importCSV parsing and scheduled background jobsOperators load usage exports and get alerts without keeping the app open.
RisksAI inference
- CommercialOperators may already handle this with spreadsheets or in-house tools and not pay for a planning tool that does not control the network.
- DataPlans are only as good as imported usage data, which varies by monitoring tool and may need custom mapping.
- TechnicalReal priority handling depends on traffic timing and bursts, which a simple committed-bandwidth model may miss.
- CommercialThe evidence is public claims from one forum, so demand and willingness to pay are unverified.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.