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Various companies have been doing this for a while (and it's a business model that existed long before the internet). This is the one I know best and have used: https://clarity.fm/ It was great a few years ago for validation for a B2B product we wanted to sell and needed unbiased feedback on.
"It was great a few years ago for validation..." It isn't good anymore?
Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
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#112Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
#113It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.
Not just to save space. Typing with T9 was much more time-consuming that our autocomplete touch keyboards.
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#114I'm curious, is it needed to generate an invoice for every payment received? How is the accounting managed?
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#115Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
#116It looks like you're using stripe to process your payments. Does this mean that if I send a 1-character message it will cost you money?
I have the same feeling. With only 300 bucks we can make this guy lose 10K :D ( $10.000 / ( 0.3 + ( 0.029 * 0.01$ ) ) * 0.01 = $333,01 We would need a javascript script that would make 33301 payments of 1 cent. This would be a very cost efficient attack between business rivals.
Perhaps if you spent less than 33 cents he won't...
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This would result in incessant phone calls. That's purely hypothetical, of course, because no one would take a job at that company.
> This would result in incessant phone calls. Make those expensive, too. Or accept people making more phone calls, which is perfectly fine, because you can only call one person at a time. > no one would take a job at that company Not if you are already working there, and not if the company sells it as a huge improvement to work productivity and fewer distractions.
Anyway, people don't like to start at a baseline and then go down from there. It makes them anxious. A better scheme would be to reward people for short meetings, few or concise emails, etc.
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If the money was donated this would just make this an alternative way to donate money to charity, the creator pocketing the money is necessary for this to be a social experiment.
He could give the money to me and the “social experiment” part would be unaffected, I think. He could burn the money. Keeping it is not really out of necessity.