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Anyone here remember the early days of WhatsApp, pre-Facebook, when it required an annual subscription fee of $1?

• embedding-shape 4mo ago
  Remember clearly the first time that message popped up, asking for $1/year, and I think you could basically "skip for now" and then it'd pop back up again later again. I remember thinking how brilliant it was, just hitting 100K active users in a year would be $100K, more than enough for a person, and at their scale they'd make it work long-term. Then of course eventually the $20B purchase happened and it became a product in someone's portfolio instead essentially.
  • angled 4mo ago
    Absolutely, I just linked to this in another comment, I couldn't easily find another story: https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-annual-subscription-fee-testing-ad.html https://www.techspot.com/news/63504-whatsapp-waves-goodbye-a...
  • alex1138 4mo ago
    20 billion dollars to steal people's phone numbers Anything Zuckerberg needs antitrust immediately
  • mjamesaustin 4mo ago
    A small annual subscription is a great way to add friction to bots. I truly wish every platform I used had one.