I've been wanting something like this for years, ever since we all started to go google as a first port of call and ever since the algorithm changes it's been harder and harder to find out what people are saying about a product without getting hit with corporate/ad spam. I just tried it with a few searches for actual stuff I need more info on and the results were very satisfactory, so well done.
This is a really well thought out product. Well done. You have solved a very real problem with this product in a very fitting way. I also really liked the 3D animation on the kickstarter page. I will buy one as soon as I have some spare cash.
Thanks for trying it out. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic, so health search is one of the areas I really want us to help improve for the world. We have a long way to go but it's one of the suckiest areas of search with spam and clickbait taking over the rest of the web. We're still putting together our spam blacklists for health so all ears on suggestions, but we have a pretty good model for detecting decent content, and a start at some vertical "meta indexes" of good resources.
Very grateful for you trying out Andi, and for your encouragement!
What about the DAML smart contract language? It's currently being used to digitalise the world's largest stock exchange (Hong Kong) and the Australian Securities exchange
Sounds interesting but my main concern is the anti-spam approach. It sounds good for general spam but what about a concerted defamation campaign from someone. How do you deal with that?
That depend on how you do it.
The client selects what you see, you can unsubscribe from accounts with spam, and your client will refuse to show posts from those you don't follow
I will never understand why so many products offer saas pricing when it is of no benefit to the consumer. I don't want to be paying $10/month for something I might only use a few times a year. Just let me pay as I go. I'm relieved to see that model here. Finally. I signed up and I hope other services will follow suit in the same way and relieve us of saas pricing fatigue.
Interestingly a startup I helped with some BI work, I advised then to change to a pay-as-you-go model instead of a monthly subscription and their sales revenue sky-rocketed.
The counter-argument to that is that pay-per-use discourages usage: "every time you use it, you pay" encourages you to be mindful about how much you use. You may not binge entire series on Netflix if you have to pay for each episode. You may justify a Photoshop subscription so that you have a powerful tool ready whenever you need it, but maybe you would think twice about making a meme if you had to pay for it (with money not just time).
I think it really depends on usecase. For something like e-signature, I can totally see how "pay per signature" makes sense - you wouldn't sign less documents to save a buck! On the contrary, you'd be comfortable keeping a contract knowing you only pay what you use, if you don't sign documents in a month, you pay nothing. So here probably a "subscription" model is a much harder sell.
Also there is a difference at a firm level and an individual user. If I have a company where this is used all the time (real-estate agency, law firm, etc) I might want the all-you-can-eat subscription model and not worry about usage. In fact, I might buy extras like white-label branding.
But for personal use or occasional use, yeah, being limited to subscription plans really sucks.
I agree. It is dependent on use-case but the majority of startups backed by VC choose the SaaS pricing model by default.
I do agree that in the case of something like Netflix a monthly subscription is a good idea, but there are many instances where pay as you go can work so much better.
Most recent example of this for me was a faxing app. I needed to fax a handful of pages for the first (and probably only) time in years, and they wanted me to sign up for a monthly subscription.
I'm tired of modern "subscriptions everywhere" too, but OTOH SaaS is burning money even if nobody's using it at the moment. AWS doesn't care if EC2 instance is idling :-) That cost is either included in pay-as-you-go price, or paid as a subscription fee.
Pay as you Go scales until there is enough loyalty and demand that your users opt for a monthly fee to save money. By forcing everyone to a monthly fee you alienate a ton of users that want to use your service but not enough to need a subscription.
I hope you are being sarcastic. I’ll give two examples: about twice a year I need to (a) send something for signature digitally or (b) send something digitally to a fax number. If I can pay $2-10 for this, I will in a heartbeat and move forward. But it seems every provider wants me to sign up for a monthly plan as if these irregular needs will magically become regular. So instead I waste a ton of time driving to the library to use their fax machine or mailing a paper copy of my signature to someone. I would rather pay a premium to use something every now and then, but I won’t agree to subscribe. If these ever became more than irregular needs I would gladly subscribe to get a lower price per use.
I bet there are orders of magnitude more users like me, the sum of which would be a sizeable market. But instead every SAAS provider is focused only on regular monthly users, ignoring this shadow market. But it is a false dichotomy. Make it highly profitable but not scalable to do Pay as you Go, and then less profitable but scalable to go monthly. Do both.
They need to charge enough per unit of service to make it worthwhile. And people need to understand that they need to pay for services. Not everything is free.
Subscriptions are a good model for things that you use often and regularly. PAYG is better for things that have high value when you need them, but you don't need often.
I can see services like this offering both, and customers choosing one or the other based on their usage pattern.
You see this with movies already, and I think it works well: You can subscribe to the monthly and watch whatever, whenever. Or just rent movies when you occasionally want to watch one. Both are cool.
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I am a process and operations specialist. With these skills I can build and lead teams, refine processes throughout the entire company from everything to employee onboarding to customer success. I can also project manage non-dev projects (or work with a CTO manage dev projects), build and execute data strategies and handle client relationships.
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Interesting. I haven't watched the video get but I'm interested to know how is Imba for low-coders like me? React has a huge ecosystem around it and while it is not low-code, component libraries make adoption a bit more of a no-brainer so I'm interested from that perspective.
I've currently been working on a Blockchain app with a low-code back-end which is almost complete now and the front-end is supposed to be done in React but I'm open to alternatives.
