In-reply-to » Interesting reflections and points about creating a free service vs creating free software

@prologic@twtxt.net I would pay! Since I have spare money and no free time (or will) to set up everything.

I was thinking of creating my instance of Yarn.social (mainly in Spanish, since I’m using Twitter a lot to share professional stuff), but then I got to learn some stuff, and paying a few bucks is faster (for me).

If I got to pay 5-10 USD for a VPS (plus my time setting up everything), and I get a service someone else is maintaining for, we say, 3 USD/month, it’s a no-brainer for me. But I don’t know how many people like me there are.

I think the hook is in having a not so painful price point and also making it hard to stop paying for it. Example: I pay Spotify, and now I cannot cancel, since my wife and father-in-law are using it, and I want to avoid that conflict of telling them that I’m cheap, so I pay 7 USD / month, and I get music w/o ads a few times a week.

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