If the service was as useful as LJ (which I'm not yet sure of, though it sounds very cool), I'd pay at least twice what LJ asks for a yearly account before I balked.
I'm actually hoping to make it *less* -- my attitude is that I'd rather have many people paying a little bit that they scarcely notice, rather than a few paying a lot. I won't know the actual numbers for quite some time yet (indeed, paid memberships are at least a few months off), but I'd really love to be able to pull it off for something on the order of $10/year. We'll see.
Oh, and in response to the previous comment, last I checked my gmails have ads. Silly, context generated ones (which largely cause me the giggles) from the text of the mail. And gmail is my favorite platform so far for email.
Right, exactly. I like the Gmail approach: small number of ads, not *too* intrusive, and highly context driven. If I go the ad route, I'd like a pretty similar approach -- indeed, it's pretty likely that I'd use Google as the ad provider.
I'd say I click on an internet ad about twice a year.
Yep. But that's why I'm keeping the company lean: so that I can still function on a low clickthrough like that. I don't know how it will actually wind up working (or even if there will be ads at all), but my mental model was to show just three ads per user session, only in conversations where there is enough content to stand a chance at getting something *useful*, on the theory that I'll get a few bucks worth of click-throughs per user per year.
If I can get a few million users (and heaven knows, if Superpoke can have millions of users I ought to be able to do so), that just might work...
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I'm actually hoping to make it *less* -- my attitude is that I'd rather have many people paying a little bit that they scarcely notice, rather than a few paying a lot. I won't know the actual numbers for quite some time yet (indeed, paid memberships are at least a few months off), but I'd really love to be able to pull it off for something on the order of $10/year. We'll see.
Oh, and in response to the previous comment, last I checked my gmails have ads. Silly, context generated ones (which largely cause me the giggles) from the text of the mail. And gmail is my favorite platform so far for email.
Right, exactly. I like the Gmail approach: small number of ads, not *too* intrusive, and highly context driven. If I go the ad route, I'd like a pretty similar approach -- indeed, it's pretty likely that I'd use Google as the ad provider.
I'd say I click on an internet ad about twice a year.
Yep. But that's why I'm keeping the company lean: so that I can still function on a low clickthrough like that. I don't know how it will actually wind up working (or even if there will be ads at all), but my mental model was to show just three ads per user session, only in conversations where there is enough content to stand a chance at getting something *useful*, on the theory that I'll get a few bucks worth of click-throughs per user per year.
If I can get a few million users (and heaven knows, if Superpoke can have millions of users I ought to be able to do so), that just might work...