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From my rough viewing of this page: http://appnetstats.com/ http://appnetstats.com/ I'm seeing that "Unique users today" is around 10-15% of 17,500 at the end
by jyap 14y ago
From my rough viewing of this page: http://appnetstats.com/ http://appnetstats.com/
I'm seeing that "Unique users today" is around 10-15% of 17,500 at the end of the day.
Let's high ball that and say it has 3000 daily users (if we consider a user as someone who posts based on the "Unique users today" statistic).
The greatest challenge to the sustainability of App.net will come 1 year from now when all of the initial sign ups are up for renewal.
Who will click renew and who will say "Hmm, this cost me $50 and I didn't get $50 worth of value out of it over the past year. No thanks."?
A subscription based model is only a sustainable business model if people re-subscribe.
- markmm 14y agoFor me it doesn't offer anything new, even if it was free why would people use it over twitter which has millions of users and content. I doubt it will succeed unless they rethink it's purpose.
- ghshephard 14y agoApp.net got rolling when the Twitter started issuing letters suggesting that developers will no longer have wide-open access to their API, would be limited in the number of users they could have for their clients, and started sending advertisements into their stream. If none of that matters to you, then, right now, Alpha / App.net will not have any value to you. Check back in six months when there are more applications and activity.
- melvinmt 14y agoMost subscription based models are being kept sustainable by "don't ask" principles. If you don't ask to renew and silently charge the credit card (a la most saas solutions), few people would try to reverse this transaction.