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not unless said investors demand better metrics like active user count...
by eviks 2y ago
not unless said investors demand better metrics like active user count...
- lostlogin 2y agoOnce you are navigating these waters, it might pay to ask for a definition of ‘active’.
- mathw 2y agoThis is the point where you realise the investors were, like most times, a mistake. I don't know if Kagi have any investors or not, but I am kind of hoping the subscription model means they don't need them.
- ffsm8 2y agoTechnically, they do https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517149 But as the comments pointed out, the invested money is "only" ~700k, so they're likely not such a mistake as you're imagining
- dgacmu 2y agoNo need to really - users + revenue is enough to figure it out. And you want to see revenue anyway. (I'm one of those small investors in Kagi.)
- comprev 2y agoI've seen the opposite of this at a startup once in the streaming music industry. We _knew_ our "free trial for a month" was being abused by 500k+ users because the sign-up flow neither required a valid payment on file or email validation. In fact there was an entire industry built around generating false throw-away accounts. The company used stats including non-paying users to demonstrate demand for our service was high, even though we knew they would highly likely never spend a cent with us.