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Surprised the guy never even inquired as to how much the API access to support 100 API calls per day would cost. After 2 seconds of idle research, I have found

by woah 2y ago

Surprised the guy never even inquired as to how much the API access to support 100 API calls per day would cost. After 2 seconds of idle research, I have found that it would cost less than a dollar a day. https://docs.developer.yelp.com/page/start-your-free-trial https://docs.developer.yelp.com/page/start-your-free-trial

franciscop 2y ago
A dollar a day is $30/month, and at $1.99/sale that means OP would need to sell 15 apps ONLY to break even, which given the comments in the blog might be close to reality. This is pennies for both sides, but the way that Yelp distastefully contacted OP is probably worth just shutting the whole thing, it's not like OP was making bank on the app to begin with.
- stevarino 2y ago
  Throw on taxes, administrative overheads, etc, they are probably looking at 30-45 sales per month. Which is likely not realistic. On top of that, this is a continuous payment. Even if I was looking at 5-10x rate of return, I would be very hesitant as that's the rate-of-return today while the sales are forever. I've been wondering how realistic microsubscriptions are... Say $1-2 dollars a month per user to maintain an app, perhaps limited to just power users, would support a lot of infrastructure.
WoodenChair 2y ago
It's just not worth working with a partner that will shut you off at 4-days notice. In addition though, they shared the following pricing deck with me: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cb_8laDpxZdfwJPtYBmibZgvLZ84a17J/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cb_8laDpxZdfwJPtYBmibZgvLZ8... Which seems to indicate a base price of $229 per month. I have no idea why that doesn't line up with the pricing on their website. But the fact that they shared it with me indicated to me that my use case fell under some kind of "enterprise" usage. Regardless, I would not continue to work with them after 4-days notice and the threatening email. It's too small and app for it to be worth it to me. I did ask in one of my emails about the pricing discrepancy and got no reply.

by woah 2y ago

franciscop 2y ago

A dollar a day is $30/month, and at $1.99/sale that means OP would need to sell 15 apps ONLY to break even, which given the comments in the blog might be close to reality. This is pennies for both sides, but the way that Yelp distastefully contacted OP is probably worth just shutting the whole thing, it's not like OP was making bank on the app to begin with.

stevarino 2y ago
Throw on taxes, administrative overheads, etc, they are probably looking at 30-45 sales per month. Which is likely not realistic. On top of that, this is a continuous payment. Even if I was looking at 5-10x rate of return, I would be very hesitant as that's the rate-of-return today while the sales are forever. I've been wondering how realistic microsubscriptions are... Say $1-2 dollars a month per user to maintain an app, perhaps limited to just power users, would support a lot of infrastructure.

WoodenChair 2y ago

It's just not worth working with a partner that will shut you off at 4-days notice. In addition though, they shared the following pricing deck with me: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cb_8laDpxZdfwJPtYBmibZgvLZ84a17J/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cb_8laDpxZdfwJPtYBmibZgvLZ8... Which seems to indicate a base price of $229 per month. I have no idea why that doesn't line up with the pricing on their website. But the fact that they shared it with me indicated to me that my use case fell under some kind of "enterprise" usage. Regardless, I would not continue to work with them after 4-days notice and the threatening email. It's too small and app for it to be worth it to me. I did ask in one of my emails about the pricing discrepancy and got no reply.