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What 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. Id
by jdeibele 8y ago
What 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).