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I've had an idea in the back of my head for a while, that micropayments (and maybe blockchains by extension) might have an answer to this. What if installing so
by sputknick 9y ago
I've had an idea in the back of my head for a while, that micropayments (and maybe blockchains by extension) might have an answer to this. What if installing software was free, but you paid a fraction of a penny for every minute/hour that you run it? Right now this isn't practical, but what if the friction around payments was able to drop to near zero?
- ghaff 9y agoIt exists in the SaaS world. For example, charges based on volume for field marketing campaigns. And, of course, most of AWS is pay-per-use (either time or amount). It's probably not more widely used even in the SaaS world because people generally don't like the thought of there being a meter ticking while they're using something. Which in turn discourages use and that in turn means that users don't get as much value out of a product or service than they otherwise would.
- jodrellblank 9y agoPay while it runs, you say? sleep(500); Say again? sleep(500); Takes twenty seconds to load? I'll look into it. Just enable debug logging, +10% runtime overhead...