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Would Marco make more money giving away his app for free and charging $1.99/month for the service? It's always seemed odd to me that you pay for the web service
by luigi 15y ago
Would Marco make more money giving away his app for free and charging $1.99/month for the service? It's always seemed odd to me that you pay for the web service upfront with a one-time fee, though that seems to be working well for Pinboard.
It may be the case that a one-time upfront cost is the best way to attract paying customers.
- adelevie 15y agoIf lack of a monthly fee made some sense in the early days of Instapaper, it makes plenty of sense now that Apple has "Reading List" installed on millions of Macs and iOS devices.
- freshlog 15y agoPinboard also has a $25/year plan for archiving of links, in addition to their one-time signup fee.
- hrktb 15y agoI don't have the link at hand, but he actualy bloged about it. He tried recurring billing, and gave up/couldn't because it was tailored for recurring publications, and not services like Instapaper. Edit: this was his take on it: http://www.marco.org/2012/01/06/autorenewable-subscription-restrictions http://www.marco.org/2012/01/06/autorenewable-subscription-r...