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I wonder how does this business scale. $15 a month is not much for paying salary.

• praptak 11y ago
  A single person can obviously maintain multiple profiles. Sending some text messages to a fake partner isn't exactly a full time job.
  • dogma1138 11y ago
    Those are usually a "full time job" for those people, they probably handle 1000's of profiles a month.
    • praptak 11y ago
      Yes, I meant a single $15/ mo profile doesn't need a full time job.
• Cthulhu_ 11y ago
  $15 a month per subscriber; surely one person can write hundreds of messages and maintain dozens of personalities a month, especially when aided by some text recognition and pointers ("your personality with this customer is 'nerdy', suggested replies: 'Dr. Who is the shit!', 'ia! ia!', 'bush did 9/11'"). I don't know what the average income in the US is, but with a hundred subscribers per person you'd be looking at about $1500 / month, which sounds decent. It also depends on how much messages you get though; I'm sure there's a few that will just chat all day to fill up a need for social contact, while others will just message a few times a month to keep up appearances. Of course, as 'girlfriend' you could (and probably should) do some flood control yourself (max x messages / day / person) to be able to keep up with as many clients as possible.
• dbot 11y ago
  I'm familiar with the company and believe they use Amazon's Mechanical Turk. There's a hard cap on the number of messages per month, so that ensures they stay profitable.