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Yeah. That's not really a business model though, more of a pipe dream. You cannot support a service with one-time "very small" optional charges. Unless, of cour
by eps 12y ago
Yeah. That's not really a business model though, more of a pipe dream. You cannot support a service with one-time "very small" optional charges. Unless, of course, you start to twist users arms, in which case these charges stop being optional.
- benzoate 12y agoOptional charges seem to work pretty well for Wikipedia. Although who knows how well that will transfer to a social network.
- dataminded 12y ago$5 will buy a full month of server time on a modern cloud host. I imagine that if they can extract that much out of a user, they can make it go a very long way. This is especially true if the optional charges include things that consume large amounts of disk or bandwidth (video/pictures and associated long-term retention).
- Tyrannosaurs 12y ago$5 a month out of each and every user? Good luck with that - it would put them over Google and MASSIVELY beyond Twitter and Facebook (both in single figures annually).
- shashashasha 12y agoExactly. Tumblr couldn't put money together with the themes people were buying, even though that was pretty lively.