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Thank you very much. We are thinking about offering a lifetime membership plan, but need to figure out the details first. How much would you be willing to pay
by justmarkup 8y ago
Thank you very much.
We are thinking about offering a lifetime membership plan, but need to figure out the details first. How much would you be willing to pay for a lifetime licence?
- jdeibele 8y agoWhat I would like to see is a membership where the price drops each year. First year, it's $5/month. Second, it's $4. Third year, it's $3. And so on. Ideally it's free year 6 and from then on as long as you have an active account. But it could be $1/year. I already have enough things I have to pay for every month for the rest of my life.
- icebraining 8y agoWhat happens if signups dry up? Those $180 won't last forever if you expect hosting, support and/or new developments.
- magnetic 8y agoA service that has a non zero operating expense (which is, pretty much everyone) cannot survive if there is no revenue from users to support that OPEX (IT/cloud costs, dev pay, etc). You need recurrent money to run the business. It comes from ads/tracking/data and/or from subscriptions. Some business want to protect your privacy by not tracking you or serve you ads, so you should expect a non zero recurrent cost. It can be extremely small, but it needs to be there to be profitable: the business has to cover its costs somehow, or it won't last. > I already have enough things I have to pay for every month for the rest of my life. So does this business to provide a service to you, for as long as you remain a customer.
- prepend 8y agoThe software industry goes back decades and has solved this problem. Microsoft still makes a lot of money selling one time licenses (and other stuff).