Okay so I've been thinking a lot about how to monetize the rss reader I'm building and I can't decide on a model...
Okay so I've been thinking a lot about how to monetize the rss reader I'm building and I can't decide on a model...
Now I'm between these two options:
- Have a free tier with ads and limited features and a cheap pro subscription with no ads and all of the features.
OR
- Free trial with all of the features for X days and then monthly subscription
What would you recommend?
Why would I want yours over what else is there?
You mean the rss reader?
Well, my value proposition points are the following:
I pay every year for BazQux. It seems to be a fitting business model for a RSS reader. Keep it simple.
Thanks for the advice!
Btw, I had never heard of BazQux and I just checked it out, seems pretty nice! If I may ask, what made you pick BazQux over other tools like Feedly, for example? Just curious so I can gather feedback and improve myself.
Of course!
I picked BazQux for a couple reasons, the main ones being:
Minimalist UI. I feel like Feedly (at least at the time), while nicely design, was just a bit too much. I like my information to be densely packed and easy to consume.
Search. Other solutions (again, at the time, I'm not sure if things have changed) did not provide a search engine. I find that to be a crucial feature as I sometimes recall reading something I found in my feed, or just want to perform a search through a set of preselected sources.
Awesome feedback right there, will have those in mind for my project, thanks!
Opinion: Ads sounds gross.
Which one is easier to test (quickly)?
Worth running the numbers for CPM's for Google Display ads. Would be good to know how much $ is generated from 1000, 10k, 100k impressions.
Ads sound gross, totally agreed...
I guess I just needed to put it out there to get me thinking myself. I'm not going the ads way.
I've heard you're supposed to be up-front about pricing. So putting the cost out there, even if there's a long trial period, might be worthwhile. Those who sign up will know what they are getting into.
When you charge you can say "We charge to keep our service open. That comes with privacy for you. We don't sell user data."
That's a nice motto to put out there with the pricing plan description, thanks!
And yeah, it's important to be up-front about pricing.
For me: no ads. They'll put me off the product, and you want a loyal userbase that might one day upgrade instead of an annoyed userbase that will pay to remove the annoyance or just go away again.
True. I had thought about ads mainly to encourage people to pay to get rid of them. But that's actually not what I want... I want users to like the product and pay because they like it and find it useful.