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$2k for 15000 users. <wrong>Each user is worth $7.50/month to you. But, they only pay once to sign up.</wrong> Each user is worth 13 cents. So, it seems that t
by code_devil 15y ago
$2k for 15000 users. <wrong>Each user is worth $7.50/month to you. But, they only pay once to sign up.</wrong> Each user is worth 13 cents.
So, it seems that the users paying for the archival service($25/yr) are the one's keeping the lights on at your bookmarking service. 1000 such users would bring in $25K. Basically you need 7% of your users(15000) to break even today.
Each user is worth $2000/15000 ~= 13 cents
My Question:
1. Is it easy to get recurring paying users?
2. In the long run(for any paying web service) what % of the user base do you think will be such users ? [Is 20% the max ? or 30 % ?]
EDIT: Fixed my cost per user
- zzleeper 15y agoI think its the other way: 2k/15k = 13 cents per user. Given that I just paid ~$10 to join, my guess is that I just bought around 6 years of storage. That said, it still looks quite expensive.
- alexallain 15y agoDid you mean to compute the cost/user? If so, that comes out to a little over 13c/month. Still, that comes to $1.60/year, meaning that a user would start to cost money right around the end of the 6th year of usage (assuming hosting costs don't go down). But if they're not paying for archival, are they really the folks who are causing the high hosting costs? As other have speculated, it would seem that the archival service might be the major reason that hosting is so expensive.
- code_devil 15y agoYes. I computed it reverse. Thanks.
- rodh257 15y agokeep in mind he said active users, there's probably a number of inactive users who paid the initial fee but now don't add to server workload.