Comment on: Fair Pricing
Seeing how much revenue subscription services make from inactive customers (and how much I have paid over my lifetime to services I no longer used) people don't overestimate this at all. If anything, users still underestimate it.The disconnect between the researchers and people's actual estimations is that "cancelling a service" is much harder than the couple button clicks it usually takes. You have a structural problem: If you don't use a service, you don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. It's easy to cancel something if you make a conscious decision to stop using something. But if it
Comment on: Ask HN: Pricing Models for Subscription Services... Your Experience?
I tend to buy software and services in that price range by the year for both myself and clients. Expensing or invoicing a small monthly charge is too much hassle. Note, however, I am more hassle sensitive than price sensitive. I am also somewhat resistant to automatic charges, but that is probably just me. OTOH Neflix goes quite well with a small monthly charge. Maybe the yearly charge for them is a barrier.Your charge is so small that I suspect the recurring charge will generate a lot more money than a one-time charge or the lifetime charge.
Comment on: Software for One
> No complaints over paying more than >$100 a month in subscriptions with coding agentsPlenty. The problem isn't so much the price as it is the loss of sovereignty.It's not your model running on your computer, it's $CORPORATION's model running on their own data centers. They're just generously allowing you to use it, and only on their terms.
Comment on: Perspec 1.0
Isn't so nice that the 1980-2000's distribution models are back, as there doesn't seem to be any other way to get folks to pay for tools?It is either that, or a SaaS wall.