Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by hboon » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 8:58 AM UTC

Pinboard's New Pricing Policy
blog.pinboard.in

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by simi_ » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:21 AM UTC

> Pinboard Blog

I think the actual blog post title might make for a better title.

By the way, I just bought an account a couple of days ago, after flirting with the idea for more than a year. Pretty good timing I guess.

Pinboard seems so far almost exactly how I imagined my perfect bookmarking service (and I'm a huge bookmarking nerd). I like and use the Pinboard Plus [0] Chrome extension because of its simplicity.

0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pinboard-plus/mphd...

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by hboon » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:26 AM UTC

simi_ wrote: post #2

> Pinboard Blog I think the actual blog post title might make for a better title. By the way, I just bought an account a couple of days ago, after flirting with the idea for more than a year. Pretty good timing I guess. Pinboard seems so far almost exactly how I imagined my perfect bookmarking service (and I'm a huge bookmarking nerd). I like and use the Pinboard Plus [0] Chrome extension because of its simplicity. 0…

Thanks. I hadn't notice that. Modified the title.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by hudibras » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:33 AM UTC

> An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard.

I've always wondered about this. The subscription model is so ingrained nowadays that I cannot think of any other web service of any kind which uses a one-time fee.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by eps » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:33 AM UTC

Damn, Maciej.

  - Isn't this somehow unfair to someone?
  - No.

  - Should I be worried?
  - Only in the broadest, existential sense.

Thanks, totally made my day :)

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by dchest » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:34 AM UTC

hudibras wrote: post #4

> An astonishing number of people already believe that they're paying annually for Pinboard. I've always wondered about this. The subscription model is so ingrained nowadays that I cannot think of any other web service of any kind which uses a one-time fee.

It's not only a web services: I sometimes receive emails asking me to cancel the subscription for my desktop software, which is sold without subscription.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by daGrevis » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 9:57 AM UTC

This just forced me to finally buy a Pinboard account!

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by buro9 » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 10:08 AM UTC

    Should I be worried?
    
    Only in the broadest, existential sense.

Perfect. It's little touches like this that keep the service personal.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by sillysaurus3 » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 10:20 AM UTC

I still can't figure out whether Pinboard is insane or genius for pricing it at ~$10/lifetime (or in this case $11/year). I've paid Dropbox about $480 now, and it's easily that valuable. But the amount of value I've derived from Pinboard is comparable.

The value is "You'll never lose this note, idea, or tool ever again in your entire life. Even if it goes offline, you'll still have a starting point for remembering that-thing-you-saw-years-ago-and-want-again."

There's a certain phenomenon in the gamedev industry that was discovered a few years ago. As you price something near zero, your sales increase more than linearly. You'd think that if you drop the price of a game from $50 to $5, you'd get 10x the sales. But in fact, you end up with much more. I wonder if something similar happens for Pinboard.

Re: Pinboard's New Pricing Policy

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Post by sireat » Mon, Dec 15, 2014, 10:20 AM UTC

I think I waited about 3 years since first hearing about Pinboard (here on HN no less) until finally making the jump from Delicious.

The bookmarking speed difference is amazing.