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Sounds like you just need to be a bit more discerning about what you use. For example, your projects in that site. You describe it as "pennies to store". For h
by bruce511 2y ago
Sounds like you just need to be a bit more discerning about what you use.
For example, your projects in that site. You describe it as "pennies to store". For how long should they store it for free? For a year? 5 years? a million years?
Let me put it this way - if your own library of work is not worth $10 to you, then perhaps it's worthless and can be discarded?
Subscriptions are not going away as a business model because where there are ongoing costs, there has to be ongoing revenue. Anything else is not sustainable.
If there are one-time costs then by all means charge one-time amounts. But hosting, storage, bandwidth cost money every month because the hardware and meatware costs of providing that service happen every month.
- noemit 2y agoI'm willing to pay 50 cents per year for them to store it. That's already a 10x profit for them. But 10/month is a lot for virtually nothing? Anyway, I ended up saving my stuff locally, closing my account and just not using their service. I found an alternative solution using a product I already pay for.
- bruce511 2y agoThere you go. Good discernment. If they're not offering you value then cancel the subscription. But that doesn't mean the end of subscriptions. It means that services that don't offer sufficient value go away.
- palata 2y agoBut there are interesting situations, e.g. video on demand. When there was essentially only Netflix, everybody was fine paying a subscription. But now there are many different services with exclusive rights on some content, so people have to choose between paying multiple subscriptions, alternating between subscriptions, or going back to downloading content. Meanwhile the VoD services get more expensive and add ads on top of subscriptions. Not sure if that model "works".