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There's a lot of money in micropayments and there are loads of problems with existing solutions from the perspective of virtually everyone involved. The comprom

by glimcat 15y ago

There's a lot of money in micropayments and there are loads of problems with existing solutions from the perspective of virtually everyone involved. The compromise solution tends to be purchasing service-restricted credits in larger increments. It's a great problem to solve, but people have been trying to make incremental improvements here for ages. What makes you different than all of them?

GFischer 15y ago
We're currently testing several hypothesis and assumptions: 1) People want to pay for online content or services that deliver value for them (League of Legends creator said: "if it delivers a tremendous value to them that's highly replayable, people will spend money") 2) There's a large segment of people that don't have international credit card or paypal, yet are online and want to pay (or people that don't want to use a credit card online), and have a cell phone. 3) Webmasters and game developers are willing to accept a large percentage cut in exchange for much better conversion rates. 4) The service has to be as simple as possible (and I think BuySimple is doing things right in that regard) and dead easy to try (we'd thought of the "free sample" thing as well) The hypothesized target segments are: - online games with in-game stores - virtual communities that want to donate or help - small independant websites with small products (example: arts and crafts sites with small projects) Think very small payments (5 cents of a dollar) League of Legends interview: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28313/Interview_League_Of_Legends_Merrill_On_Succeeding_With_FreeToPlay_Core_Games.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/28313/Interview_League_Of...