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I would have thought some of these things are the first to get the axe. Do we really need to pay $20/month just to have a chatroom? When there are free alterna
by axod 18y ago
I would have thought some of these things are the first to get the axe.
Do we really need to pay $20/month just to have a chatroom? When there are free alternatives out there? When times are good, sure if you like, but when money gets tight, it's probably a contender for getting cut.
- bdotdub 18y agoI feel like their cashcow is Basecamp and people would be hard pressed to ditch their project management app
- helveticaman 18y agoYou're right, but the problem is that many people are hard pressed.
- skmurphy 18y agoThis is certainly a reasonable view for a developer/hacker. For other small businesses that want an app that they can rely on, paying a small amount every month means that they can get support and that the app won't suddenly stop working. It doesn't mean that 37signals price points are correct, but for business related apps free can be the wrong price.
- petercooper 18y agohttp://signalfire.com/ http://signalfire.com/ is free, as far as I can make out. It looks well designed. I believe I tried it briefly a few months ago when it launched, but can't remember much else about it.
- whatusername 18y agoYou're discounting inertia. a) As stated in the post - people will look to cut FUTURE spending before discounting current spending. So the argument is that while getting new customers may be difficult in a downturn - the inertia of the fact they have to take an action to cancel - will slow down any attrition. b) There's still a transaction cost - training, updating links, migrating data/history, etc with moving from SeviceA to ServiceB. Which will again push that migration down the list of cost-cutting priorities.