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What sites would you pay to use?

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Re: What sites would you pay to use?

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Post by pchristensen »

blinks wrote: post #10

As to paying for Hacker News, there are several community sites that have a low one-time (non-reimbursable) fee for joining. MetaFilter ( http://www.metafilter.com/ ) costs $5 to join, for example. I feel like it makes the community a little more invested in the content, and is worth it overall. I think that paying for community membership will become more popular in the very near future.

With all the free stuff, it's sort of anathema to suggest that you should pay to just talk to people on the internet, but as everyday internet users keep getting confronted with their own Eternal September, I agree that paying will become more common.

Re: What sites would you pay to use?

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Post by cellis »

Google obviously.

Pandora.com - ($15/mo ... i already pay this to Napster for unltd dls (but I would have to be able to press a back button to play the previous song,etc),

Hacker News ($20/mo ... keep the trolls off)

Wikipedia? Well if it came down to it, i'd donate to it; if it started charging, i would use other alternatives. the beauty of wikipedia being free is that it is free from the undue influence of paying subscribers- which is pretty essential to a site that wants to supply unbiased information.)

Facebook.

I don't really know of anything else that truly provides a unique value proposition for me that other sites can't duplicate rather easily.

Re: What sites would you pay to use?

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Post by mdemare »

Gmail definitely, but I would consider it bait and switch.

Wikipedia absolutely.

wordreference.com (online dictionaries for english/french/italian/spanish). Love to have better options though.

The Economist (used to have a web subscription, but cancelled it when they made all content free).

Rescuetime. Keeps me productive.

Fogbugz definitely (it's free for 1-2 persons). I entered 3000 bugs in 5 months.

Re: What sites would you pay to use?

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Post by mattmaroon »

cellis wrote: post #15

Google obviously. Pandora.com - ($15/mo ... i already pay this to Napster for unltd dls ( but I would have to be able to press a back button to play the previous song,etc ), Hacker News ($20/mo ... keep the trolls off) Wikipedia? Well if it came down to it, i'd donate to it; if it started charging, i would use other alternatives. the beauty of wikipedia being free is that it is free from the undue influence of paying…

I think Pandora is the only one that could reasonably charge there. The rest would see massive switchovers to free, similar competitors.
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