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If it is bootstrapped, would you pay $1-2 per month (charged annually) for a service like this? Removing the pressure for YoY growth.

by dodoso 4y ago

treme 4y ago
professional's won't take you seriously unless you charge $50 minimum per year, probably closer to $100.
- dodoso 4y ago
  Good to know. I think $5-10 sounds very reasonable.
  - wallaBBB 4y ago
    Hmm that's tricky, you have to keep in mind that with $100 per year you're maybe limiting entry in markets with a lot of resources (e.g. IT professionals in India). Maybe I'm wrong, dunno about price points, I do know I find it quite easy to support someone on Patreon with $5 per month if I find the content valuable. And this should not be viewed as more valuable, people are not constantly looking to switch jobs or take on more work, for many it would be pretty passive network (as is LinkedIn).
sokoloff 4y ago
That doesn’t actually remove the pressure for growth from what I can see. A network site has value only when the people I want in my network are on it. That’s pressure for growth, whether driven by me inviting them or you enticing them somehow. I doubt you’ll find many people willing to pay for a subscription to a new upstart LinkedIn that doesn’t have at least some critical mass of users already. Would I pay $20/yr for an actually better LinkedIn? Probably. Would I pay $100/yr for news.yc? Absolutely. Would I pay $20/yr for a networking website with 50K users, 0-3 of which I know? No.
wallaBBB 4y ago
Sure, I paid for LI premium to check out courses (1 trial + 1 to finish) but did not find added value worth the money. Same way I pay on patreon for content I get for free anyways, to support spam-less quality content. 1-5 USD per month is a range many would pay to have a clean professional environment, and it would eliminate bots. Problem (that I see) is getting something like that off the ground, to reach critical mass. Also if it goes public, would it remain like that without further pressure to bring more income. Courses do sound like a quality idea from Linkedin, but other (MOOC) platforms seem to be doing it better. Perhaps a partnership with a MOOC platform...

If it is bootstrapped, would you pay $1-2 per month (charged annually) for a service like this? Removing the pressure for YoY growth.

by dodoso 4y ago

If it is bootstrapped, would you pay $1-2 per month (charged annually) for a service like this? Removing the pressure for YoY growth.

treme 4y ago

professional's won't take you seriously unless you charge $50 minimum per year, probably closer to $100.

dodoso 4y ago
Good to know. I think $5-10 sounds very reasonable.
- wallaBBB 4y ago
  Hmm that's tricky, you have to keep in mind that with $100 per year you're maybe limiting entry in markets with a lot of resources (e.g. IT professionals in India). Maybe I'm wrong, dunno about price points, I do know I find it quite easy to support someone on Patreon with $5 per month if I find the content valuable. And this should not be viewed as more valuable, people are not constantly looking to switch jobs or take on more work, for many it would be pretty passive network (as is LinkedIn).

sokoloff 4y ago

That doesn’t actually remove the pressure for growth from what I can see. A network site has value only when the people I want in my network are on it. That’s pressure for growth, whether driven by me inviting them or you enticing them somehow. I doubt you’ll find many people willing to pay for a subscription to a new upstart LinkedIn that doesn’t have at least some critical mass of users already. Would I pay $20/yr for an actually better LinkedIn? Probably. Would I pay $100/yr for news.yc? Absolutely. Would I pay $20/yr for a networking website with 50K users, 0-3 of which I know? No.

wallaBBB 4y ago

Sure, I paid for LI premium to check out courses (1 trial + 1 to finish) but did not find added value worth the money. Same way I pay on patreon for content I get for free anyways, to support spam-less quality content. 1-5 USD per month is a range many would pay to have a clean professional environment, and it would eliminate bots. Problem (that I see) is getting something like that off the ground, to reach critical mass. Also if it goes public, would it remain like that without further pressure to bring more income. Courses do sound like a quality idea from Linkedin, but other (MOOC) platforms seem to be doing it better. Perhaps a partnership with a MOOC platform...