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Is this thing profitable? It appears you've only got the one-time fee.

• rgrieselhuber 16y ago
  He supports himself with it / it's his fulltime job, so assuming yes.
• gavingmiller 16y ago
  His website pricing gives a hint as to how much the app has made him: > The [Pinboard] fee is based on the formula (number of users * $0.001), so the earlier you join, the less you pay. The current price is $9.22, so following this formula he has ~9220 users, which has paid him roughly 42K. He also charges $25 (minus your sign up fee) for archiving, which would bump that number up a bit.
  • jarek 16y ago
    I hate to be That Guy but they have repeatedly said that's not the entire formula. The most recent figure I saw them share puts them at around 15k users.
    • idlewords 16y ago
      Right now it's 18k users, with 11k active. The signup fee has brought in just over $120k, most of that coming in December (thanks, Yahoo!).
• idlewords 16y ago
  Yes, it's profitable. Recurring revenue comes from the archiving feature, which costs $25/year. The signup fee is mostly there to serve as a brake on growth.
  • buro9 16y ago
    I would love it if you added something between full archiving and the basic account. I want the freetext search, but don't need to be able to access the archived page (except for the equivalent of Google's text cache if the remote page is down). So yes I want archiving, but I don't need asset archiving for things like the images, css, javascript on the pages. And yes I realise for a lot of hashbang sites this would break, but that's just dandy with me. I could sign up to the archiving, but with over 1,700 bookmarks I hesitate... will it go and download all of them? I think that's creating a burden on your service so I am not upgrading. I'd even pay the same price, or damn near it, as the full archiving, but I really want to get the fulltext search in a guilt-free way.
    • idlewords 16y ago
      If you upgrade, we do go fetch all the link content. We have users with 70k+ archived bookmarks, so you'd really be just a drop in the bucket. It comes down to this - storage is cheap and development time is expensive. It would take considerable work to retrofit the crawler to only fetch dependencies for certain users, manage the case where they upgraded/downgraded between levels, and so on.
      • buro9 16y ago
        Cool, that makes me feel guilt-free... one upgrade coming.