Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

Post by amelius » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

Post by johnisgood » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

anyzen wrote: post #141

johnisgood wrote: post #95

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I am sorry about that! I wouldn't have known it would do that, I do not use my mobile to browse the Internet because it does freeze more often than not, and when it does not, it is slow. :/ It should work from your PC though.

Off topic, but maybe you should try Firefox for Android? I have it on mobile (with uMatrix admittedly) and it hasn't crashed on me for ages...

Post by tjbiddle » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 3:18 PM UTC

zaarn wrote: post #148

amingilani wrote: post #96

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Yes, but the costs are still the same. Even stripe has a 2.9% + 30¢ cost per transaction.

Better write something worth the money then.

Post by lighttower » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

stakhanov wrote: post #154

It's such an obvious idea, and it has been around for as long as spam e-mail has been a problem. I absolutely do not understand why it has not yet been adopted for all e-mail traffic worldwide. If an e-mail were to cost just one cent, it would never add up to an amount that a normal person would even notice, yet it would solve the problem of spam e-mail over night.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 3:19 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #118

iagooar wrote: post #89

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> 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.

If people are already working there, this scheme would be illegal in the US. It would violate the employment contract. It might be illegal in many places regardless. 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.