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Here is my honest brutal “apology”: I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of cents to use your service. If you want to monetize it find a way to allow nano-payments

Here is my honest brutal “apology”: I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of cents to use your service. If you want to monetize it find a way to allow nano-payments. You are not adding as much value as you think.

duiker101 9y ago
One dollar is something you could afford. And if you can't/don't think it's of enough value then the watermark version is good too for sure. And if you are a content creator that needs lots of them then the 10$\month will be fine. Let users pay with their wallet. Not everyone would know how to do this in some graphics software so there is a value.
- newen 9y ago
  It doesn't matter if I can afford it... I can afford to spend $500 too. Doesn't mean I'm going to spend it on just anything. Making a meme on a website is barely worth the time I spend doing it. The $10 seems reasonable if I make a ton of memes and it's a good website though. The $1 is just ridiculous and they should just take that option out purely because it changes the dynamics as to how you view the website. Charging $1 for a meme is so ridiculous that I think people will look at the $1 and run, while viewing it as a monthly $10 service will be more palatable.
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  - whostolemyhat 9y ago
    It's $1 for removing the watermark from the video. The free version still has the watermark.
- thedrbrian 9y ago
  If you’re a content creator you’ll have a stand alone program that’ll do more than add text to a video.
Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, there's so many free video editor programs available that can do this just as well. They might not be cut to do exactly that, so there's a bit of a learning curve in comparison to this service, but still, especially for something as optional as making memes, I'd rather waste half an hour learning how to do it in a video editor than pay $1 for each video.
vortico 9y ago
I disagree. If I spend 15 minutes using this service, and if I believe the service offers something others don't (I don't know if this is the case---I haven't tried it), then I've just achieved something I couldn't do otherwise in that 15 minutes. If it saved me even 5 minutes of my time compared to another service/software, I'd value that at $1-5 depending if I was at work or using it during my free time that I could have spent on something else fun. Now, getting me to pull out a card or log into PayPal is an uncomfortable, high-mental capacity activity, which I might not want to do during my free time. That's the real problem behind internet micropayments.

duiker101 9y ago

One dollar is something you could afford. And if you can't/don't think it's of enough value then the watermark version is good too for sure. And if you are a content creator that needs lots of them then the 10$\month will be fine. Let users pay with their wallet. Not everyone would know how to do this in some graphics software so there is a value.

newen 9y ago
It doesn't matter if I can afford it... I can afford to spend $500 too. Doesn't mean I'm going to spend it on just anything. Making a meme on a website is barely worth the time I spend doing it. The $10 seems reasonable if I make a ton of memes and it's a good website though. The $1 is just ridiculous and they should just take that option out purely because it changes the dynamics as to how you view the website. Charging $1 for a meme is so ridiculous that I think people will look at the $1 and run, while viewing it as a monthly $10 service will be more palatable.
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- whostolemyhat 9y ago
  It's $1 for removing the watermark from the video. The free version still has the watermark.
thedrbrian 9y ago
If you’re a content creator you’ll have a stand alone program that’ll do more than add text to a video.

Sylos 9y ago

Yeah, there's so many free video editor programs available that can do this just as well. They might not be cut to do exactly that, so there's a bit of a learning curve in comparison to this service, but still, especially for something as optional as making memes, I'd rather waste half an hour learning how to do it in a video editor than pay $1 for each video.

vortico 9y ago

I disagree. If I spend 15 minutes using this service, and if I believe the service offers something others don't (I don't know if this is the case---I haven't tried it), then I've just achieved something I couldn't do otherwise in that 15 minutes. If it saved me even 5 minutes of my time compared to another service/software, I'd value that at $1-5 depending if I was at work or using it during my free time that I could have spent on something else fun. Now, getting me to pull out a card or log into PayPal is an uncomfortable, high-mental capacity activity, which I might not want to do during my free time. That's the real problem behind internet micropayments.