[signaru]

Another idea: pausable subscription (like cancelling then re-subscribing, but without the hassle or stigma). I think I've seen a music plugin do this before. It's the idea of losing money to "idle time" that makes me allergic to subscriptions. You'd have to be a business that constantly uses the product for that to make sense.

The opposite effect is you are pressured to keep using the product and I feel my friends are losing valuable time because of their Netflix subscriptions.

Pay-per-use might also be a similar option, and I'm happy with many web services working this way.

[charcircuit]

Pausable subscriptions sounds hard to market. If netflix said that you need to pay $0.10 / hr people would be less comfortable with spending time on the platform. Every time they watch something they need to make a mental decision of if this episode is going to be worth paying $0.10 or if I should just browse TikTok for free.

[signaru]

It need not be per hour. You're right in pointing out the challenges of making it per hour. But that also should best be considered a metered model instead. And that could easily be annoying considering its too close to a show/movie run length.

I was thinking monthly as that is the usual billing interval. Minimum 1 month subscriptions, then pause the next month if you want to be busy for example. Maybe even weekly or 24 hours would do.