Edit: To clarify, I'm mostly interested in subscriptions to services (of any kind) that can be provided by a small team or one person.
What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
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Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#2Little more context? Physical goods? Digital goods?
Not a whole lot you can't pay a recurring subscription for now a days. Vitamins, music, movies, cloud hosting, coffee - hell, I'd consider my mortgage and car lease to be recurring subscriptions - I pay a monthly fee; I get somewhere to live / car to drive.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#3Little more context? Physical goods? Digital goods? Not a whole lot you can't pay a recurring subscription for now a days. Vitamins, music, movies, cloud hosting, coffee - hell, I'd consider my mortgage and car lease to be recurring subscriptions - I pay a monthly fee; I get somewhere to live / car to drive.
Well, you can't just cancel your mortgage or lease and go on with your life :). You're under a contractual obligation. Maybe leases you can break, but with a high fee / penalty attached.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#4I would pay a recurring subscription for something that was worth more (to me) than I paid for it.
Edit: After your edit: I would pay a recurring subscription for something that sent me seeds for my garden each season, with some basic instructions and a chart for when to plant & harvest, what to plant together, etc.
Presumably I would have some minor say-so in what kind of plants I was getting, (Root crops, fruits, veggies, sprawling, herbs, etc), but generally I want you to decide what I'm getting and when I should be ready to plant it.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#5I would pay a recurring subscription for something that was worth more (to me) than I paid for it. Edit: After your edit: I would pay a recurring subscription for something that sent me seeds for my garden each season, with some basic instructions and a chart for when to plant & harvest, what to plant together, etc. Presumably I would have some minor say-so in what kind of plants I was getting, (Root crops, fruits, v…
Examples?
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#6I would pay a recurring subscription for something that was worth more (to me) than I paid for it. Edit: After your edit: I would pay a recurring subscription for something that sent me seeds for my garden each season, with some basic instructions and a chart for when to plant & harvest, what to plant together, etc. Presumably I would have some minor say-so in what kind of plants I was getting, (Root crops, fruits, v…
Examples?
I edited in an example, perhaps after you made this comment.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Examples?
I edited in an example, perhaps after you made this comment.
i believe it already exists:
get a variety of seeds monthly at https://www.growjourney.com/
ps: i'm not affiliated with them in any way shape or form.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#8A family member bought me a gift subscription to Raw Spice Bar. My wife and I very much enjoy cooking, so this was a nice gift. We get a new set of spices every month.
But at the lowest price, it's $84 a year, only a few dollars less than Amazon Prime. There is no way I would buy that for myself. At $12 for an entire year of spices, I might do it.
I would buy a subscription to a service that lets me watch movies in my home on the same day as their theatrical release.
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#9Since you are specifically looking at services that can be provided by a small team or 1 person, I'm going to answer with services that I pay for that are managed by one person/small team than adding some things that I would like. Hopefully, this will help you get a subscription business idea you want to offer.
Personal training - I pay a monthly fee to my coach. I would certainly pay a monthly fee for other services such as cleaning, laundry, cooking if I could afford it.
Headspace app - Mindfulness course that costs between €6 and €10. I am just trying it out for a few days as I am curious about the field of mindfulness. I could see other types of courses delivered in the same way. I am not sure of the size of the team, but I imagine it is small.
City Bike scheme - I pay about €30 euro a year to use my local city bikes. It is a public bike sharing system. They have 1000s of bike that you can take between different bike stops.
Grammarly - Excellent app that corrects everything I write in my browser and my blog posts.
Lastpass - a service that has all my passwords.
GoCar Car Sharing service - Like Zipcar. It's why I have not bought a car.
GoRails - Tutorials on different aspect of Rails
Egghead - Not paying at the moment but will probably start again soon.
Sidekiq - A ruby gem I have used on many projects. Great business model. Run by one man (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/sidekiq)
Some I don't pay for but consider valuable.
Distrokid - I am urging my friend, who is creating an album, to give this a shot (https://news.distrokid.com/what-ive-been-up-to-for-the-past-...). I would use this service if I were making an album. I have been thinking of writing a book, and something that would distribute my book across all the different digital channels would be perfect for indie authors.
Some other subscriptions that I would pay for include,
Supplements such as Creatine, Protein, etc. . . Based on my macros or sport
Coffee but that is done to death already.
If I had a child, I would pay a subscription for different educational toys each month geared towards a certain topic (such as reading)
Re: What would you pay a recurring subscription for?
#10Hmmm...
* Exterior vehicle wash / detail
* Residential linen service that gives you new sheets, duvets, drapes within a catalog of styles for variety and also keeping things clean/dust-free
Will update as I think of more