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> I don't understand why x-day free trials haven't been replaced with usage-based free trials They want you to pay for it, don't they? What I do think would b
by renonce 2y ago
> I don't understand why x-day free trials haven't been replaced with usage-based free trials
They want you to pay for it, don't they?
What I do think would be worth it is micropayments, so for each usage you will pay just $0.2 or so. Unfortunately such a payment scheme is not practical under current Visa/Mastercard system.
- unilynx 2y agoOr under any realistic payment system that end users would want to use No offense, but micropayments have to be the most often suggested non-solution to any problem since the "402 Payment required" code was added to the HTTP spec
- ericd 2y agoIdk, I’d pretty happily pay $0.50 to use an infrequently used utility once, if it was totally effortless. But everything wants like $20-30, or even worse, to lock me into some monthly subscription.
- kulahan 2y agoThat level of effort is something I think matters a lot. If you could make it incredibly easy for people to spend $1-2 (and no more), you could get a TON of money out of people. I dunno how you'd solve that major structural issue, but if you could, it sounds like a goldmine. If nothing else, microtransactions in software would probably explode more than they already have.
- ska 2y agoI think hypothetical/magic micropayments that just work(TM) actually solve lots of problems. The problem is with the “realistic” part, which is why it always comes up.
- Yeroc 2y agoSadly, the only micropayments implementation we have is ad-supported apps. It's essentially micropayments. Albeit a very annoying implementation!