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Looks great. Why not make this self-hosted possible? You can charge a continuing fee like $1-2/yr for updates for the self-hosted software. This would bring in more users because it's self hosted and they don't have to worry about them losing their notes on your website or you spying on them. And you're obviously not looking for a lot of money since you're not asking for much. One actual suggestion is to offer more f…
Looks great. Why not make this self-hosted possible? You can charge a continuing fee like $1-2/yr for updates for the self-hosted software. This would bring in more users because it's self hosted and they don't have to worry about them losing their notes on your website or you spying on them. And you're obviously not looking for a lot of money since you're not asking for much. One actual suggestion is to offer more f…
$1-2/year is probably not enough to run a sustainable business model around the software. Basic business overhead of taking and tracking and refunding payments alongside accounting and legal fees will consume a substantial proportion of revenue even with 10k or 20k customers. That's in addition to supporting that number of customers with bug fixes and updates and newsletters and a website and such. These grow with nu…
If it catches on, the creator can always increase the prices and grandfather in the old customers. You might've noticed that the only mention of pricing was for $5 and it talked about simple features for premium users. So I felt like that amount was a good deal since no one would blink before saying okay to a couple dollars a year deal, but have a one time fee, some people won't take the leap of faith.