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> I'm guessing infra-costs are pretty low - the site hasn't changed much in 15 years Not necessarily ;) IMHO what matters is their actual traffic. For each use
by kroolik 5y ago
> I'm guessing infra-costs are pretty low - the site hasn't changed much in 15 years
Not necessarily ;) IMHO what matters is their actual traffic. For each user they are going to send an email in the future. If they have 10 daily users, then that's 10 emails in let's say a year. Those users are daily, so a year after their acquisition they will send 10 emails/day, everyday.
Where I'm getting to is the delay doesn't matter much long-term, because they will eventually need to send all those emails whilst serving new users. It's all about their user base, not delay.
Obviously, their use case might simply be what limits daily active users thus the "usage loan" to pay back in the future :D
- glenneroo 5y agoGood points. OTOH they don't allow attachments and text can be compressed pretty well, plus I somehow doubt most people are sending new messages daily or even monthly. The friends I use it with all write one or two emails to each recipient to be delivered in x years, where recipients won't even know about the existence thereof until x years later. We then tend to reply to each of those messages once after receiving. I personally try to write 3 messages to myself for delivery in 1, 3, and 5 years... the longer the delay, the greater the level of retrospective silliness. Overall I think there isn't a lot of traffic and it's such an obscure service, every person I've mentioned it to has never even heard of it. It sure would be interesting to see some stats though! :)