[kalleboo]

I wonder how much the friction of signing up factors in. It may be that there are lots who would pay $1/month, but the friction of going through an onerous signup processes fraught with these dark patterns, giving out your CC number etc, means they just google up another source. For the subset of people people who are motivated enough to over that signup hump, the price elasticity curve may be different.

We really need some zero-friction mini-(if not micro) payments solution. I'm imagining a Paypal subscription button that's as frictionless as a Like button (on both subscribe and unsubscribe). Click once to pay $1 for access, without even leaving the page (no logins or signups). Unsubscribe is just a single click away, with no hidden cancellation periods. I love the idea of flattr, but only someone like PayPal has the existing userbase to get any adoption. They also have a balance feature to reduce CC processing fees.