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Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by sbr464 » Wed, Sep 05, 2018, 4:12 PM UTC

shubb wrote: post #49

sbr464 wrote: post #29

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Regarding ideas on how to charge, I like how https://sketchapp.com handles this. Instead of charging $799 like the old Adobe Photoshop days, they charge a lower one-time price that receives updates for a year. You can choose to stay at that price or upgrade. You also don't need to back pay for years you skip if you choose to upgrade again.

Depending on the product, this model could be problematic - should you provide ongoing security updates beyond the paid period? If no, then a big chunk of your installbase is going to be insecure. Some people might feel that's unethical, or too much of a bad press worry. If yes, then you need to patch a growing number of branches with libaries that might make breaking changes requiring re-writes in your code. I guess…

I think it’s definitely a valid point and worth considering in the current reality of software development.

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by prepend » Sun, Sep 09, 2018, 4:42 AM UTC

magnetic wrote: post #57

jdeibele wrote: post #30

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What I would like to see is a membership where the price drops each year. First year, it's $5/month. Second, it's $4. Third year, it's $3. And so on. Ideally it's free year 6 and from then on as long as you have an active account. But it could be $1/year. I already have enough things I have to pay for every month for the rest of my life.

A service that has a non zero operating expense (which is, pretty much everyone) cannot survive if there is no revenue from users to support that OPEX (IT/cloud costs, dev pay, etc). You need recurrent money to run the business. It comes from ads/tracking/data and/or from subscriptions. Some business want to protect your privacy by not tracking you or serve you ads, so you should expect a non zero recurrent cost. It…

The software industry goes back decades and has solved this problem. Microsoft still makes a lot of money selling one time licenses (and other stuff).

Re: Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads

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Post by TheRealPomax » Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 4:13 PM UTC

pinkano wrote: post #89

TheRealPomax wrote: post #45

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It is a thing, and it makes feedly a bad application. "Not having ads" does not make your RSS reader good, it just makes it "not doing something bad and frankly, plain stupid". Not having trackers or ads is a given, in the same way your coffee maker doesn't come with tracking or ads, and you should go "uh, what? no thanks I'll use something else, this is ridiculous" when you find a coffee maker that does. Selling you…

Hello, thank you for your feedback. Yes, we do show ads in the Free version, there is always Feedly Pro with no ads. Ads in the Free version help us fund new projects and the infrastructure.

That's what paid pro accounts are for. Your product is good enough to merit people giving you money, which lets you develop the features that pro user benefit from, and free users get a taste of, to convince them to switch to a pro account.

Ads as your kickstarter in the absence of a pro account user base? Sure, if you have no other capital to work with, go for it. Still ads even after you have a pro account system in place generating cashflow? Now you're just being bad human beings.