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by mvdwoord 4075 days ago
Much like birger, I never paid for any of the 'paywalled' news outlets before. Mostly due to the terrible user experience, t&c, and lack of content (often single newspaper/magazine). Even though I find most content in newspapers not even worth reading, let alone paying for. I do really want to pay for some high quality articles and Blendle makes this possible.

They nailed it for me with the money back option, truly no questions asked. The pre-paid wallet makes me comfortable in that I don't feel tricked/lured into some subscription or other form of overpaying. Overall very smooth UX, no annoying crap. Makes you wonder why so many websites still try to nag me into paying when it only drives me away from them.

Would like to see some (a lot) more titles, especially international, but understand they are working on this. Also, since alexandernl is reading.. please add wordcount to the webinterface and wordcount/price to emails, thanks :)

Other than that, much enjoyed. Keep up the good work!

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Before Blendle I only used paywalled sites that I had a physical subscription for. It was horrible (only the economist worked as expected). Watching magazines and newspapers implement their own solutions was just painful... some Dutch newspapers did an awful job with apps. Newsweek also had a hilariously user experience as they kept switching their strategy.

Blendle provides both an excellent user experience and a good solution to content providers who should really not be making their own apps.

Thanks for the nice words and comments! Working on that!