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Why is Stack Exchange considered a failure? Don't they have a ton of exchange sites (if not thousands). $100/month x 1k = $100k Month in revenue. Seems they
by proee 17y ago
Why is Stack Exchange considered a failure? Don't they have a ton of exchange sites (if not thousands). $100/month x 1k = $100k Month in revenue.
Seems they would be quite happy with that sort of recurring revenue...
- alanl 17y agoI think a lot of the sites were dead or dying. I'm Looking forward to seeing the new more open model. I think it could produce some useful Q&A sites.
- icey 17y agoAFAIK they haven't actually started charging for Stack Exchange sites yet.
- proee 17y agoSo why not flip the switch then?
- dustingetz 17y agohardly any SE sites have a community worth paying for, which is kind of the whole point
- proee 17y agoWell there's plenty of sites owners (with credit cards) that might assume otherwise. It depends on the target audience, but if it was for say doctors or lawyers 1/10th the traffic or even 1/100th the traffic of a typical programming site would be a success. Maybe they did a survey among all the sites to come to your conclusion, but it seems odd they never tried go paid.
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- loikujhygthj 17y agoThe people that could afford a site aren't the people that answer questions for free. The main problem was that there was no way of charging the people who asked questions - who were the only ones likely to want to pay.