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I did some napkin math on ad revenues arpu for the big 5 ad supported tech companies and came to the conclusion that you could cover all of their revenues if yo

by novok 7y ago

I did some napkin math on ad revenues arpu for the big 5 ad supported tech companies and came to the conclusion that you could cover all of their revenues if you could charge $7-10/month for every user, which is netflix money for a set of services that are far more useful than netflix itself. So I forsee something like 'setapp/netflix for privacy' that could cover it all for $10/month with enough scale. Because honestly, paying $10 for each subservice quickly adds up to $100s/month

johnchristopher 7y ago
I strongly believe it's doable and there's a market - although small - for that. WhatsApp used to be $1 a year and it was profitable. > https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/040915/how-whatsapp-makes-money.asp https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04091... The short answer used to be $1 at a time. In some countries, the app used to cost about $1 to download; in others, the first year is free, but each subsequent year costs $1 – in other words, WhatsApp had a subscription model. At the peak under this model it has about 700 million users worldwide; yearly revenue can be estimated at $700 million per year at this time. There's no reason we couldn't get a $10 a month budget that would give users mail, instant messaging, file sharing or hosting of some kind. But there wouldn't be any of the perspective of the spectacular kind of growth the adtech bubble is trying to sell or integrated software solutions à-la Google that monopolies like so much.
- novok 7y ago
  Most whatsapp users didn't pay the $1/year over several years I've heard.