[poszlem]

I pay $20 for ChatGPT which is WAY more useful to me than Kagi. Hell, I pay half of that for Office subscription which I use even more. There is no way I can justify paying $25 for a search engine. And I am a professional too, just one who cares about money.

If you're a Kagi fan, the use of Discord by the search engine may seem impressive, but as a regular user looking for an affordable and trustworthy search engine, it's unlikely that you would spend your time engaging with the search engine's Discord community.

It's a common occurrence among startups to rely on Discord as a means to measure software usage, but in actuality, the platform mostly attracts highly engaged power users and a few followers who may not represent the average user. As a result, the company's perception of their software's typical user may be skewed.

[_frkl]

I don't consider myself a kagi fan, nor do I think their use of discord is 'impressive'. That would be quite silly. So you are wrong if you assume that is where my positive judgement comes from. I just make different value judgements than you -- ones I feel align well with my own, personal priorities and specific context. That doesn't mean I don't care about money, I hope you can see and accept that.

I just stumbled upon their discussion about pricing, and found it interesting how such a problem could be approached, and seeing their point of view and reasonings, and pros and cons for several options, and how its a really difficult problem for a young company like them. Compared to that, the discussion here feels a bit one-dimensional and flat, tbh. Anyway, just wanted to give a different, bit more emphathetic perspective to most of the sentiments in the rest of the comments.

Basically, I can understand why they felt the need to make the decisions they made, but I acknowledge that I'm in the minority with this. Doesn't mean I don't think I'm right and you're all wrong :)