[IgorPartola]

Couple of things:

First, price point is 2-4x what I expected. Not saying I wouldn’t be a customer but at $5 unlimited it would be a no brainer for me.

Related: I would love to see family pricing. $12-13 price point is just right for me to share with my family with up to six people or some such.

Privacy is important. Is it possible to provide a payment system that is anonymous? Cash in the mail? BTC or similar? What is your policy on logging searches?

Will your results ever feature ads? Affiliate links? Will you ever attempt to create Kagi Plus social network?

[freediver]

Unfortunately we are not in the position to set the price point by consensus or market expectation but by realistic cost of providing the service at a given level of quality, in a way that potentially ensures sustainability and serving the customers long-term.

[sb057]

>we are not in the position to set the price point by... market expectation

While I do like the project and wish you the best, producing a product that the market will not pay for is a business model doomed to fail.

[lenkite]

You will find a lot more people willing to pay with a price drop. $10/month is not possible for folks outside the first world.

[Melatonic]

I agree - I like the idea and so far have liked the beta. But $10 a month is way too much unless there is something that really makes it THAT much better than other search engines. Look at NextDNS for example - they offer it for free under a certain amount of queries and for home use unlimited is 2$ a month. And it has a lot of features, easy and clean interface, plus custom options. I gladly pay for that because its cheap and I can use it with devices off my home network.

$10 a month is getting into the territory of streaming video services and those require a hell of a lot of bandwidth and infrastructure to maintain.

For business or corporate use though $10 a month / user seems totally applicable.

[tomdekan]

I disagree. I would paid $10 / month as an individual.

[spurgu]

+1 for anonymous payments (Monero please?). I am signed up for the beta with a non-personal email but using traditional payments will throw that semi-anonymity out of the window.

What subscription models exist in the crypto world right now, i.e. to automatically charge me every month?

[muhammadusman]

Echoing the family plan, I would love to have my family use the search engine but at $10+ per person, it doesn't make sense.