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It's $3 a month! That's around the price of a cheap cup of coffee in the US. I don't get why people can say in the same sentence: "I love this product" and "it'
by AdriaanvRossum 7y ago
It's $3 a month! That's around the price of a cheap cup of coffee in the US. I don't get why people can say in the same sentence: "I love this product" and "it's too expensive". You are not willing to pay the same amount as one cup of coffee a month for it? It blows my mind.
- rozenmd 7y agoBecause it's not a cup of coffee. You're more or less guaranteed a consistent taste when you order a cup of coffee. Not so much when buying a subscription to a random SaaS from the HN front page. Trust is a significant issue here. Coffee also doesn't require commitment. I can walk out of the shop, and say "that's my last coffee", and that'll be the end of it. No hunting down unsubscribe/cancel buttons, etc. I mean as someone building their own SaaS, I totally get the frustration. But anchoring your price to coffee isn't as useful as say, what people pay for Dropbox, VPS/VPN or email providers.
- alphabettsy 7y agoIt’s $36/year. When I buy one cup of coffee I don’t automatically get another one every month if I forget to unsubscribe. What’s hard to understand about liking something and finding it too expensive? I drove my fathers Mercedes, I loved it, but it’s too expensive. Rationalizing everything by comparing it to coffee and thinking in payments instead of total price is how Apple is able to convince people to buy another $1000 iPhone every year.