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I’d love to see professional licenses switch to a “maximally fair to the user subscription model”. If you use the thing in a given month, you autopay the month
by breatheoften 7y ago
I’d love to see professional licenses switch to a “maximally fair to the user subscription model”.
If you use the thing in a given month, you autopay the monthly subscription fee — if you don’t use it at all in a given month — you pay nothing.
people who use the software regularly pay basically the current subscription pricing model — but if you only use it very occasionally — you pay much less.
I think this kind of pricing model could really help drive adoption of subscription pricing for professional tools ... I’d be willing to maintain a subscription to several expensive infrequently used by me tools with this kind of pricing model — and I might occasionally use those tools which would be better for the developer than me never using their tool at all ...
- detaro 7y agoI'd like that too, although the pricing steps are an interesting challenge: You want to make the full amount of regular users, but don't want the casual users to think "if I click this icon now to touch one file, it's gonna cost me 20 bucks", so you might need even more granular steps. E.g. a month costs the same as 1/10th of a year, a day costs the same as 1/8th of a month -> if you use it >8 days in a month it caps to the month, if you use it >10 months it caps to the year. Kind of like some public transport network cards work.