[sciencewolf]

I remember https://www.linkdrop.co/ tried to do this and the Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19960313) appears to be this exact idea. However, it looks like they shifted to using an extension as opposed to a bookmark. Any idea why?

Also, curious how many pro subscribers you currently have? I imagine it's pretty difficult to get people on board with a $4/mo tool for personal consumption, unless you market it as a "productivity" tool.

[kirubakaran]

As a data point, https://histre.com/ (Effortless Knowledge Base) that I'm bootstrapping, includes features around bookmarks - so it is in a way in the same space fwiw. Histre has a "solo plan" currently at $3/month. People who use it for "personal consumption", as you put it, sign up for that plan. When I talk to them, they say that at $3/month, they don't even have to think about it. You're definitely getting several multiples of that in value and it's a great way to support the startup be independent.

Otherwise all we'll have in the world is different flavors of VC funded adtech companies providing "free" services.

[marcinem]

We have 35 pro users right now. But yes, it’s been a tough journey to get them subscribe and most of them have either lifetime access or discounted price.

Still learning here, what price would you suggest?

[brudgers]

Just to throw numbers around:

  4x engineers @ $10k/month
  50% overhead
  25% net revenue 

Is $75k/month. At $4/month that’s about 18,000 paid users. So 4500 paid users/engineer. Without a free tier and without prepaid lifetime plans.

Twenty dollars a month gets users per engineer down to 1000. A hundred bucks a month gets it down to 200 users per month and then there’s time to develop features and such.

Again, I am just throwing numbers around to provide an example of one way of establishing price. The important thing is that prices close to zero dollars are hard to make work at modest scale because there are a lot of users and not very much money for operating and growing the business.

On the other hand, 1000 users at $4/month is not bad as passive income for a person. That’s a different kind of business model.

Good luck.

[marcinem]

Thank you a lot! :)