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The current set of paid users are sufficient to break-even on the infrastructure costs. As for personnel costs, a few more hundred paying users and we'll be se
by vishnumohandas 5y ago
The current set of paid users are sufficient to break-even on the infrastructure costs.
As for personnel costs, a few more hundred paying users and we'll be set. Feedback from existing users have been positive, and we should be able to reach that point by end of the year.
It helps that we're living in one of the cheaper parts of the globe, and are not motivated by money. We're building this because an easy to use, privacy friendly alternative needs to exist.
- sverhagen 5y ago> not motivated by money Ummm, could you elaborate on this? It sounds great but it's at the same time so foreign to me...
- speedgoose 5y agoI am not them but I know a lot of people who are not motivated by money. I guess they need and want enough money to happily live and work in good conditions, but not more, and they do not seek to become the next Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos.
- orangepanda 5y agoRight. But you need money to pay for infrastructure and employees. "not motivated by money" sounds very much like "we'll be shutting down in 2 years"
- vishnumohandas 5y agoHey, our infrastructure is already being paid for by existing users. Our pricing plans are designed such that you cover your own storage + bandwidth costs, and then some more. We don’t have a "forever-free" plan, and don’t intend to have one. And the compute requirements for a product like this are low (since most of the computation happens on the client). So currently what we need money for is employees (engineers) and not infrastructure.
- fire 5y ago"Not motivated by money" in this context simply means not being profit focused, so breaking even and/or revenue enough to hire some more engineers is probably the monetary goal
- CharlesW 5y agoTo me, that’s a red flag for a service I don’t want to see disappear in a few years.
- binbag 5y agoWhy? Not motivated by money still means they can generate income and even grow. They might not personally become rich, and they are ok with that. What's the problem?
- whoisburbansky 5y ago“Not motivated by money” doesn’t mean they’re doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, it just means they’re optimizing for other things, and just see cash flow as a way to keep the lights on and their employees paid.