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Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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I'm a big fan of these tiny minimal websites. I've built something similar lets your create an online blog from your paper journal. I use it daily to write down my thoughts and I'm weirdly very consistent with writing knowing others are reading my stuff. Wondering if OP has noticed the same thing.

https://paperwebsite.com

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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I really love the pricing model, refreshing: > thoughts.page is free for anyone who makes less than $40,000 USD/year, and costs $5/month otherwise.

Yeah it's an interesting model. I'm guessing it works on an honour system as income isn't easily verifiable

It's basically 'pay what you want' with a super weird cutoff based on post-tax income.

I need to lose $4 by the end of the year! /s

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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I really love the pricing model, refreshing: > thoughts.page is free for anyone who makes less than $40,000 USD/year, and costs $5/month otherwise.

Yeah it's an interesting model. I'm guessing it works on an honour system as income isn't easily verifiable

In Norway, everyone's income is public information.

Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent.

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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I really love the pricing model, refreshing: > thoughts.page is free for anyone who makes less than $40,000 USD/year, and costs $5/month otherwise.

It's a shame because its pricing structure works like how many people misunderstand taxes to work. If you earn $39,990/year and then get a $30/year raise, then you'll actually be set back to $39,960/year after you pay the new price for this service. You might have to awkwardly explain to your boss that you don't want that $0.015/hour raise. If instead the service worked like taxes by charging a percent of the money you make over $40k (and then limiting the value up to $5), then the price trap issue would be solved.

(This suggestion is a joke, I just have the issues of welfare traps and popular misunderstandings of taxes on my mind.)

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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is it just me, or is tweeting into the void kinda sad?

True, and also feels to me kinda egocentric to genuinely not care of any feedback or interaction with the reader, but I know a lot of people like that, so it probably is just us...

Re: Thoughts.page: hosting a small webpage for your thoughts

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah it's an interesting model. I'm guessing it works on an honour system as income isn't easily verifiable

In Norway, everyone's income is public information. Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent.

> In Norway, everyone's income is public information.

> Other countries could do the same to make things more transparent.

What verifiable tangible benefits does this have?

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