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That's a really interesting pricing model. I should rummage around and see if he's mentioned why he chose that.
by pnathan 16y ago
That's a really interesting pricing model. I should rummage around and see if he's mentioned why he chose that.
- idlewords 16y agoI got the idea from joshu. I wanted a gatekeeping fee for spam prevention but had trouble figuring out what to charge. He suggested a monotonically increasing signup fee.
- isnotchicago 16y agoAre you increasing the rates for Archival accounts, too, or just the Basic?
- idlewords 16y agoArchiving has always cost $25/year, and will stay that way. Only the signup fee goes up. The practical result is that the upgrade becomes progressively cheaper (since the signup fee is deductible from the first year's subscription)
- reeses 16y agoArchiving is the best deal around. $25 and I have 1.25GB of my past ten years of bookmarks saved. (Minus a few hundred dead links from the early days of del.icio.us.) I bookmark so I can look at something later, and the unpredictable perishability of the web defeats that purpose. Archiving snatches victory from the jaws of defeat. :-) I would like to see tag hierarchies à la del.icio.us, if you were bored and wanted to implement them.
- ohashi 16y agoAt some point you're losing more potential users than you're gaining because the price has gone too high. Do you think about that? How will you handle it?
- idlewords 16y agoI've deferred worrying about it until it happens
- bmelton 16y agoI would suggest, once you cap it (at whatever rate) -- divide the rate by 12 and make it a recurring charge. For example, let's say you notice sales decline, and decide to cap the charge at $12 - change the structure so that instead, you bill each new user at a rate of $1 per month (with optional pre-pay discounts or yearly prepays or whatever). If you can keep the users for 1 year, you'll have made more than the $12 cap you would have and, if you don't, at least you don't have the support headache of having to deal with a customer who bought in at the minimum for life -- non-paying users at this price tier go away. Plus, anybody willing to break out their wallets at all are likely to have little qualm over $1 a month. Also, with a fairly regular income stream, it'll allow you to plan your expenditures more reliably, so budgeting for things like employees, server space, etc will be easier to plot out cost vs income.
- smackfu 16y ago$5 seemed reasonably, $10 is too much. For me at least.