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Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Gustomaximus wrote: post #29
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #11

Nothing, I wouldn’t want someone who places so little value on my work as a customer.

Remember Whatsapp used to charge a dollar. Multiply $1 by how many millions of users. That's not bad assuming a profit margin is there.

You can't make it up in volume :)

It might be irrational but people value what they buy by how much they spend. I remember when I left my last full time job I felt we were undercharging our customers. I went back to those same customers doing the same work and charged them three times as much as they had been paying. Their attitude towards me changed completely, I was really shocked at the difference, I'd gone from being a grunt who installed systems to a valued member of the team.

Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by cakridge »

ai_ia wrote: post #32

One minute call twice everyday by real human. 1. First to remind me the things, I would be doing today. 2. Following up on the tasks, I am supposed to do today. I tried to do using Alexa. Didn't go as expected.

Distributed accountability buddies. I like it.

Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by theblogz_in »

I can provide various things @ $1.

But if you only promise to pay it on daily basis.

I can provide you Services like:

1 Facebook Like on your pages. 1 feed for your blog on each platform and if you are interested we can discuss it in brief, there are various services which we can provide.

Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by mkovji »

soulchild37 wrote: post #30

I have been selling Android/iOS apps with a $1 price tag on it, I get 1 star review almost everyday blaming why the app isn't free. There's a lesson on don't price your app at $1.

I don't think that is the right lesson to learn from the given point. There are lot of $1 apps that are successful. There is a huge difference between $1 and free if you can see it.

This for example. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick.... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explodingk...

Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by beojan »

Blackstone4 wrote: post #8

Sounds like you've seen earn.com and the emails they send users. For $1 sign-up and get some crypto.... the monetary value here is crazy low. The tasks they seem to set probably take ~5mins which translates into $12 p/h... so you've got to really be into crypto. Service am I willing to provide for $1? Watch my favorite Netflix shows and give you a thumbs up or down :).

I can easily automate that by calling /bin/true.

Re: Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1?

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Post by odonnellryan »

cakridge wrote: post #33
ai_ia wrote: post #32

One minute call twice everyday by real human. 1. First to remind me the things, I would be doing today. 2. Following up on the tasks, I am supposed to do today. I tried to do using Alexa. Didn't go as expected.

Distributed accountability buddies. I like it.

Neat idea that has existed in other spaces for a while.

There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.

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