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To each their own :)

• criddell 10y ago
  No argument on that from me. The other part of the equation for me is that $1 / month seems like the correct price for a useful service. I think Pinboard has something like 20,000 users. If they are all paying $1 / month (I have no idea if they are), then it feels like a sustainable business.
  • idlewords 10y ago
    It's something like that (I'm not being coy, I just haven't run the numbers). It comes out to $200K/year on ~$15K of operating expenses. More people should run niche sites! A vanilla Flickr reboot, for example, is a livelihood waiting to happen.
    • nebabyte 10y ago
      Image hosting is so much heavier
  • nebabyte 10y ago
    Other than the archival for $25, I don't see what I'd pay for that my own bookmarks don't already get me. And the archival itself is likely only useful for stuff other people have already archived anyways; in the rare instances I find something I definitely want to ensure I have a copy of, I can usually find a way to get a copy onto my local machine and NAS.
    • criddell 10y ago
      That's a little like saying you don't subscribe to Amazon Prime because you don't shop at Amazon. Nobody is suggesting you subscribe to a service that provides no value.