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I really wonder what the true costs of running/maintaining a Twitter-clone per user would be. Is it anywhere close to a few dollars per month per user? To me,
by shurcooL 14y ago
I really wonder what the true costs of running/maintaining a Twitter-clone per user would be. Is it anywhere close to a few dollars per month per user?
To me, it feels like it should be a tiny fraction of that, but perhaps my judgement is off?
I mean, compared to say youtube, you have to deal with short strings of text...
- wmf 14y agoKeep in mind that in a freemium app each paid user needs to pay for ~20 free users. So yeah, it should be on the order of 10 cents/user/month.
- shurcooL 14y agoThat's true. But if it were cheaper, wouldn't a lot more people be able to sign up too? At $5/month, it's almost what you pay for Netflix. It's probably more than most people pay for their bank accounts.
- uptown 14y agoThey might be able to sign up if it was cheaper - but it doesn't mean they would. Cheaper isn't always "enough".