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> Currently the project is in beta so it's free. But we are planning to take payments ($1 per month, $10 per year). This will be more than enough to cover all t
by ddtaylor 7y ago
> Currently the project is in beta so it's free. But we are planning to take payments ($1 per month, $10 per year). This will be more than enough to cover all the expenses (hosting, domains, etc).
More likely is that it will stay around for a few months / maybe a year and then die off because it's not worth the time to maintain. Not trying to be negative, but it's what I have seen from similar projects.
- alangibson 7y agoThe current wisdom is to start charging immediately, and charge more. Otherwise you'll end up abandoning it once it stops being fun.
- karmakaze 7y agoHow does that happen? It's generating income with no dev and minor devops. If it came to need to scale, that would again be interesting.
- wingerlang 7y agoThere is probably some form of constant maintenance, email requests, updating things and so on. It is -really- easy to lose motivation when you get a few dollars here and there.
- Hoasi 7y agoWhy not make it a stand-alone app and charge right away?
- tga 7y agoMaybe, maybe not. As a random counterexample, take Carrd.co, as recently featured on the Indie Hackers podcast: simple web page generator, with a free plan and a $9/year plan, currently making more than $30k/month. https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/087-aj-of-carrd https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/087-aj-of-carrd