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How much do you think it should cost? More or less per month? Or maybe annual? Multi currency support? It is a genuine question.

zeteo 3y ago
They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! There are lots of advertisers who would pay a fair amount to know this much about your social graph and what you think of them.
- msla 3y ago
  > They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! You say that as if they won't anyway.
  - Doublon 3y ago
    Their privacy policy[1] states: >The site does not currently and will never show ads. It also does not, and don't intend to, sell data to a third party, with or without your consent. We are just against this. Fuck ads. [1] https://www.monicahq.com/privacy https://www.monicahq.com/privacy
- robinhood 3y ago
  Why would we do that? This is not something we want to do. We don't even have tracking. And also, we advocate everywhere that users should host their own instance.
  - Mashimo 3y ago
    I think it was a joke.
Mashimo 3y ago
A bit less. It just seems like a service that is "easy" to host, as in does not need much maintenance or ressources, thus allowing you to host tens of instances on a cheap VPS. But maybe I'm overlooking something. Hence me asking.
- q87b 3y ago
  I am sure part of the money goes towards development.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Cost of something just has to be higher than the cost to deliver. It should be much closer to the value provided than the cost to deliver, however, or your business will fail.
startupsfail 3y ago
Well, basic Google suite for a small business user costs around that much per month. It is not a bad alternative to your product, no? As the search over the documents, photos, contacts and emails works rather well there. And integrations with the 3rd party software and apps is great. I’m not sure Google sells the data of their business suite subscribers. I doubt they do. A comparable personal product would normally be freemium, but very limited in storage space and events number. And then, for US/European markets you’d have a $0.x per month subscription, to lift that limit. Asking early adopters to pitch in more (maybe for some token appreciation or special treatment/logo) also makes a lot of sense. (Take this with a lot of salt, I easily can be very wrong in any of the above).

zeteo 3y ago

They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! There are lots of advertisers who would pay a fair amount to know this much about your social graph and what you think of them.

msla 3y ago
> They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! You say that as if they won't anyway.
- Doublon 3y ago
  Their privacy policy[1] states: >The site does not currently and will never show ads. It also does not, and don't intend to, sell data to a third party, with or without your consent. We are just against this. Fuck ads. [1] https://www.monicahq.com/privacy https://www.monicahq.com/privacy
robinhood 3y ago
Why would we do that? This is not something we want to do. We don't even have tracking. And also, we advocate everywhere that users should host their own instance.
- Mashimo 3y ago
  I think it was a joke.

Mashimo 3y ago

A bit less. It just seems like a service that is "easy" to host, as in does not need much maintenance or ressources, thus allowing you to host tens of instances on a cheap VPS. But maybe I'm overlooking something. Hence me asking.

q87b 3y ago
I am sure part of the money goes towards development.
bombcar 3y ago
Cost of something just has to be higher than the cost to deliver. It should be much closer to the value provided than the cost to deliver, however, or your business will fail.

startupsfail 3y ago

Well, basic Google suite for a small business user costs around that much per month. It is not a bad alternative to your product, no? As the search over the documents, photos, contacts and emails works rather well there. And integrations with the 3rd party software and apps is great. I’m not sure Google sells the data of their business suite subscribers. I doubt they do. A comparable personal product would normally be freemium, but very limited in storage space and events number. And then, for US/European markets you’d have a $0.x per month subscription, to lift that limit. Asking early adopters to pitch in more (maybe for some token appreciation or special treatment/logo) also makes a lot of sense. (Take this with a lot of salt, I easily can be very wrong in any of the above).