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by amf12 828 days ago
How do they plan to monetize it? How many people will pay for Search? Will they have an ad-supported version? If so how would their direction be any different when they face the same problems?
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It’s a monthly subscription that apparently a lot of people are willing to pay for, feels like an honest business which is shocking in tech.
We don't know if they're profitable doing this. One day, they might go kaput as well.
In the early days a user could go into their setting, see the cost per search, and the total cost of their use per month, compared to what they paid. I threw some extra money their way when I was my use exceeded what I paid. But that was before they changed up their pricing structure.
at least they said they are
How much is "a lot"? The HN bubble doesn't count.
Nearly 24k paying users and ~400k searches per day

https://kagi.com/stats