But for an entire dollar, I want custom insults. None of this telling me the same thing you told the last ten people who gave you a dollar. Cuz, wow, lazy.
It might be irrational but people value what they buy by how much they spend. I remember when I left my last full time job I felt we were undercharging our customers. I went back to those same customers doing the same work and charged them three times as much as they had been paying. Their attitude towards me changed completely, I was really shocked at the difference, I'd gone from being a grunt who installed systems to a valued member of the team.
You can't make it up in volume when you're charging directly for your time. But you can with a service where the marginal cost to serve an additional user is less than that $1.
The key thing that seems to be missing is $1 from how many people?
$1 from one individual involves a lot of overhead to complete a transaction (for your average person), but $1 from N people who each require a minimum of interaction can make much more economical sense. This can be multiplied by getting $1 from N people every X days.
Per the original question there's fairly little I'd be willing to provide to a single individual at $1, but in aggregate (high N, reasonable X) there's a number of viable options (mostly in the software realm).
Neat idea that has existed in other spaces for a while.
There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.
I don't think that is the right lesson to learn from the given point. There are lot of $1 apps that are successful. There is a huge difference between $1 and free if you can see it.
Sounds like you've seen earn.com and the emails they send users. For $1 sign-up and get some crypto.... the monetary value here is crazy low. The tasks they seem to set probably take ~5mins which translates into $12 p/h... so you've got to really be into crypto.
Service am I willing to provide for $1? Watch my favorite Netflix shows and give you a thumbs up or down :).
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I am actually working right now on a runtime configs management service for which I am initially planning to charge $1/month/client in blocks of 10 clients with a minimum commitment of 1 year...but still $1 per client per month.
as in "No, sorry" or you'll come to my hotel room and fold down the blankets and put a nice chocolate on the pillow? Because I would love to have the latter for $1, especially if the chocolate is included.