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1. Can I ask, what are your goals & vision? What motivated you to build an embedded comments system? 2. You wrote elsewhere:"My example now costs $0.014 instea

1. Can I ask, what are your goals & vision? What motivated you to build an embedded comments system? 2. You wrote elsewhere:"My example now costs $0.014 instead". — I'm wondering if people think it doesn't matter if they pay $1 or $0.014 per month. Or rather ... they'll feel worried that when you charge "too little", you risk running out of money and disappear. Any thoughts about that? if it's OK that I ask. ... I've been thinking, me too, about pricing the embedded comments service I provide in the way you do now ... and mostly didn't do that. 3. If someone is to pay say $0.1 for a month ... Or $1 for a year ... Then, I'm thinking there's a minimum transaction fee, and that maybe the credit card company (or something), will get most of the money the customer pays. Any thoughts about that, and how to deal with that? 4. Would be interesting with screenshots that shows the moderation interface. 5. And yes the tech stack wold be interesting :-) (& if you have any questions to me (I'm doing a bit the same as you) feel free to ask)

orkon 8y ago
Thanks for the questions! 1. I wanted to build an embedded comment system which is not monetized by selling user data or serving ads and which has a fair pricing model. By "fair" I mean that you pay what you consume without non-transparent pricing plans where some features are only available for certain plans. I have found no such system myself, so I started building it. 2. It's unlikely that I will run out of the money and the service will cease to exist because it's a side project for me and it is self-funding. You buy credits upfront, and this pays the bills for the service. It's hosted by AWS and has no fixed recurring costs for me. 3. The minimal amount of credits you can purchase is 500k or $7.5. The transaction fees are already included in the price. 4. There is no moderation interface at the moment. As an administrator, you get email notifications for every comment you receive. The email contains a link where you can hide the comment if you don't like it. 5. Regarding the stack, I have answered below. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask. Could you share the project you are working on? And what's your vision?
- KajMagnus 8y ago
  Ok interesting to hear :- ) And I understand better how it's different from the others. Ok, $7.5. Have you found any payment handler that deals with Value Added Taxes "everywhere in the world"? I feel I don't want anyone to pay anything right now ... because I'd just mess up things with the tax agency :-P My project: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (it's in my HN profile). Vision: Building a discussion tool, that [people who change the world or their neighborood] can use to find ideas and solutions, and pick the right things to do. There are HackerNews like discussions, ... I think they work well for finding the important things and making decisions.

orkon 8y ago

Thanks for the questions! 1. I wanted to build an embedded comment system which is not monetized by selling user data or serving ads and which has a fair pricing model. By "fair" I mean that you pay what you consume without non-transparent pricing plans where some features are only available for certain plans. I have found no such system myself, so I started building it. 2. It's unlikely that I will run out of the money and the service will cease to exist because it's a side project for me and it is self-funding. You buy credits upfront, and this pays the bills for the service. It's hosted by AWS and has no fixed recurring costs for me. 3. The minimal amount of credits you can purchase is 500k or $7.5. The transaction fees are already included in the price. 4. There is no moderation interface at the moment. As an administrator, you get email notifications for every comment you receive. The email contains a link where you can hide the comment if you don't like it. 5. Regarding the stack, I have answered below. If you have specific questions, feel free to ask. Could you share the project you are working on? And what's your vision?

KajMagnus 8y ago
Ok interesting to hear :- ) And I understand better how it's different from the others. Ok, $7.5. Have you found any payment handler that deals with Value Added Taxes "everywhere in the world"? I feel I don't want anyone to pay anything right now ... because I'd just mess up things with the tax agency :-P My project: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments (it's in my HN profile). Vision: Building a discussion tool, that [people who change the world or their neighborood] can use to find ideas and solutions, and pick the right things to do. There are HackerNews like discussions, ... I think they work well for finding the important things and making decisions.