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I'm not sure how much room for improvements, but current cost is a bit high, it reads: ``` Your payments to usage balance -$8.50 ``` If I have to pay $18.5/mo

• g_p 4y ago
  Indeed - they actually did surveys and found 70% of users wouldn't continue at $19/mo (but 30% would), so you're not alone. Since the costs in question are per search, I think they were previously considering different pricing options, recognising that getting to ramen profitability is likely better than having more users and losing money every month (they're not venture-backed).
  • mdaniel 4y ago
    I thought for a second that per-search costs would incentivize them to make the search results better, but then realized that's not true of page=1 searches, only for any search page=2 and higher
• unshavedyak 4y ago
  Makes me wonder if there's a future where we can offload this cost to users local machines/servers. Eg if i can download a slice of their index, for a fixed price, then maybe the cost of per-search compute is better? I'd get more privacy, they'd save money (maybe), etc. But it depends on what the true cost is. Is it indexing? Or actually searching?