[daveguy]

Okay... It looks cool; I see the need; It has interesting features; Congratulations on the launch!

But the pricing you have set up... Two tiers: 1) free tier and 2) lifetime access for $32.

Giving any sort of unlimited/lifetime option is a recipe for losing money. Your amortized MAU value for lifetime is approximately zero. Okay, it's slightly more than that, but 20 years of access and you're looking at getting $32/20/365 per day from each user. And I just don't see how 1.2 daily active users at ~0.4 cents per day is going to keep any job away. Unless you mean you'll have to quit your job to support all the free accounts after a few years.

[dmasiii]

If I can get 1.2 new paying users per day for the duration of one year, earn enough, to say Okey maybe I can focus on this project, and then scales it and get to larger numbers.

[aziaziazi]

> Giving any sort of unlimited/lifetime option is a recipe for losing money

I agree with you: maintaining the SAAS server and has a cost. However he may consider the downloadable, local software: it would be cheaper for him (= more profit) and safer for its users ("lifetime until OP eventually gets out of business " vs "this is mine").

Obviously for the Lamborghini - the monthly subscription SAAS with discounts if you pay for 3 years and good luck to understand the unsubscribe funnel - will be more effective but OP said he didn’t target the moon. Reading his story, his target seems to be the status - or the fame - and for that I can’t help placing here my Hero’s for inspiration :

Dan and Tanya have build and maintain the most amazing GIT graphic client I tried :

https://git-fork.com/about

It’s been 9 years, it’s their only "job" and there’s two price:

- free: all features + pay reminder at startup

- pay (60$): remove the reminder

There’s also tons of pre-2010 companies that did well with lifetime plan, and many users here and here complains about the subscription models. I’m sure they’ll consider paying more for a non-SAAS software.