3 ms·

I see the confusion. Optimal price point optimises for profit: https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/13/optimal-price https://www.accountingtools.com/

I see the confusion. Optimal price point optimises for profit: https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/13/optimal-price https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/13/optimal-p... It sounds like you have a high marginal cost. As in, you pay every time someone searches for something. Can this not be reduced over time with greater efficiency of scale? FYI I use Kagi and like it. I’ve replaced Google :)

freediver 5y ago
Nope, the cost is pretty much fixed. What we charge the users is just a hair above it so we have a hope of reaching sustainability at around 50,000 users. In other words there is nothing to optimize further. And it is only about one cent to search the entire web in 300ms with everything else Kagi does, that has to be impressive ? :)
- Gareth321 5y ago
  Very impressive :) So if Kagi profits $x per search, wouldn't they profit more with more searches? More users, more searches, more profit, more sustainable.
  - freediver 5y ago
    Yes, but we can not get more users by reducing price as it would not be $X any more, but 0 or -$X per search.
    - Gareth321 5y ago
      Gotcha! Thanks for explaining, and thanks for the cool work you guys are doing.