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Just 1% of Google's market might be enough to sustain a non-bloated, VC-free company and make a good product. The Bloomberg Terminal is extremely expensive and
by Nextgrid 4y ago
Just 1% of Google's market might be enough to sustain a non-bloated, VC-free company and make a good product.
The Bloomberg Terminal is extremely expensive and yet companies pay for it because it makes their traders' jobs so much more efficient. I don't see why companies wouldn't do the same for a search engine that filters out all the bullshit so their employees don't have to waste their time wading through it.
- FredPret 4y ago1% of people who use Google is a hell of a lot. Also, Bloomberg doesn’t just search, it also provides data
- Nextgrid 4y agoCategorized search results are also data. Bloomberg is no different to Google in this regard, it doesn't generate the data, it just fetches and aggregates market data from various sources which anyone could technically do with enough effort and yet people pay for it.
- FredPret 4y agoThey add their own interpretations and calculations of footnotes to financial statements. It’s a step beyond categorizing and aggregating.
- smt88 4y ago> Just 1% of Google's market Google has 4.3B users, so 1% of that is 43M. With a $5 subscription, Kagi would have $215M in monthly revenue, enough to pay for 14,000 developer salaries. A more reasonable target might be 500k users at, let's say, $10/mo.
- freediver 4y agoYou are right. And the actual number is lot smaller. We just need 0.001% of Google users to be sustainable with the current team size. (or about 50,000 users out of 4.3B Google users). And if you find 50k users, you will find 100k. First 5k is tricky! (Kagi founder here)
- DocTomoe 4y agoHi! I'm a Kagi private beta tester and love it. Will become a paying customer. One question: I do remember a page that told me how much I searched and what that would mean once Kagi becomes a paid service. I can't find that info anymore. In light of the mail us Kagi users got today, does that mean that it's going to be a flat rate for starters?
- freediver 4y agoYes that is what we intend to try ($10/mo flat fee for unlimited). Most users told us they are more comfortable with this model vs pay-per-use which is why we removed the "Consumption" page as is not relevant in this model. We do not yet know if the flat fee will be viable for the company and we hope to learn that very soon.
- djbusby 4y agoCan you make Consumption page into History page? I think it handy to see all my old searches.
- EricE 4y agoAnother user here who see's huge value in just renaming the consumption page to a history page. Would be VERY handy! Especially if I could restrict a search to my own search history.
- freediver 4y agoHmm, we never had the ability to search your search history as we do not keep track of searches. Consumption page merely showed search count per day. If you want to save your search history perhaps you can open a suggestion on https://kagifeedback.org https://kagifeedback.org
- warent 4y agoI've been using Kagi for a month or two now. Love it and very excited about your work. Unlike alternatives such as DuckDuckGo, it has easily and painlessly replaced Google Search for me. Can't wait to see more from yall
- deltree7 4y agoIf I had a nickel 1% of the time some naive dude said, "we only need to capture 1% of the market to become rich", I'd be very rich.