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The negative reactions to you saying $15 are a good example of why there are no good Spotify and Netflix alternatives for people wanting to stream their own med
by alangibson 4y ago
The negative reactions to you saying $15 are a good example of why there are no good Spotify and Netflix alternatives for people wanting to stream their own media.
People claim to want it, but they put a very low monetary value on it. No new business can survive on $3 a month subscriptions.
- mjevans 4y agoAt that price the transaction fees are large. ~35 - 36 USD a year? Depends on what's going on and the volume. Probably no support or paid per incident support.
- alangibson 4y agoCommon wisdom is that you can't bootstrap for less that $50 per customer per month, and at $100 it actually becomes a business that can grow. No one wanting to self-stream will pay that, so then you would need to look for investment to stay alive until you have scale.
- mjevans 4y agoThat's 600 to 1200 USD a year per customer, an _entirely_ different class of service and relationship. The completely different order of magnitude endpoint I was thinking of is much more like the sort of 'streamed remote file storage as a service' (using off the shelf tech and software with a tiny bit of maybe custom glue) and almost zero support; with you get what you pay for levels of congestion and peek usage pains as potential problems to complain to that greedy last mile ISP you were forced to use because it was cable or barely better than dialup DSL.
- antifa 4y agoiCloud is $0.99 for 50GB. Surely somebody can offer a 5GB stream-your-own-music plan for $10/year? Another person in this thread apparently is already running one, but the minimum plan starts at 250GB! And 5GB to 250GB is also a huge jump for most people.