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"...to me at least, Fountain will fail for one reason and one reason only: people do not like to pay for things on the Internet like this." I would normally ag
by Geekette 12y ago
"...to me at least, Fountain will fail for one reason and one reason only: people do not like to pay for things on the Internet like this."
I would normally agree with this, but I think if they focused on home renovation/repair niche (lucrative with lots of use cases), it could work. E.g. If I have a busted sink and know that it would cost at least $100 for a plumber to stop by, I would think nothing of spending $5-10 online to potentially diagnose or solve it. So, key to this would be managing the pricing: ensuring that online consultation price is not above a certain fraction of offline alternative cost to user.