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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by friendly_chap » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:33 AM UTC

aur09 wrote: post #17

It 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?

For this very reason, Stripe does not allow you to pay less than the charge for the payment.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by mariopt » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:33 AM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #34

mariopt wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Are you a business rival to Expensive Chat?

No but I might be a rich asshole with too much free time :D

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by gelo » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:34 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by eps » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:35 AM UTC

This looked oddly similar to https://highscore.money and... it’s the same guy, Marc.

For what it’s worth, we had one of top ten spots on the highscore.money, got some traffic from it (and still get a trickle), but all of them were immediate bounces. Caveat emptor.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by momania » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:38 AM UTC

... still cheaper than a Slack subscription.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by the_duke » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:42 AM UTC

alexgmcm wrote: post #21

It 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.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by thatguyagain » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:46 AM UTC

One thought: you should let the user know that you are using Stripe(?), instead of a random credit card form. Cool thing!

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by fishsander » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

iamasuperuser wrote: post #30

This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.

Justin Kan & others tried this a few years ago with Whale (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/whale-3)

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by codeulike » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:56 AM UTC

No new messages for 45 mins, tried to chat, doesn't work.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by ratsimihah » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 10:57 AM UTC

fouc wrote: post #40

ratsimihah wrote: post #39

The implementation is clean AF and the idea is super fun! Really neat job there! This probably won't take off as-is but I feel like there's untapped potential to be leveraged.

The creator is the same guy that made wip.chat & betalist. I wouldn't be surprised if he keeps building on it and it succeeds.

Of course it is! What an inspiring community.