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Their company's success depends on their product's failure. Pretty funny if you ask me.
by infinityplus1 10y ago
Their company's success depends on their product's failure. Pretty funny if you ask me.
- dreeves 10y agoOh man, we really need to bump this to the top of our FAQ :) https://www.beeminder.com/faq#qcoi https://www.beeminder.com/faq#qcoi But maybe the best way to refute that is that we've been around 5.5 years and our long-term churn (not counting short-term churn of dabblers which is embarrassingly high cuz Beeminder is super nerdy and intimidating-looking!) is only 2%/month. PS: Huge thanks to enoch_r for the beautiful testimonial!
- daveguy 10y agoPremium seems really pricey as the only one that has a "give to charity" option. I expect some increased options to give to charity (10,20,40,60) would be a significant boost to good will / advertisement. "50% but only if you pay us $30+/mo" comes off as kind of greedy.
- dreeves 10y agoSuper valuable feedback; thank you! I realize your feedback is about the impression it gives, totally separate from how greedy we actually are, but we're still tiny ($22k/mo revenue with 3.5 FTEs). And like enoch_r and mgiannopoulos have averred, paying the penalties to Beeminder generally feels super fair. So that's why we've limited the charity option to the ultra-VIP plan. (We're super open to more feedback about this though. We tend to get a highly biased sample of opinion from our users, i.e., the people who weren't immediately put off by our apparent greed. :))