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hu3 ◴[13 Oct 25 13:31 UTC] No.45568146[source]▶
Cool project. Congrats for keeping it up for so long!

Could you share some numbers like a ballpark of subscribers?

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sqliteonline ◴[13 Oct 25 13:35 UTC] No.45568182[source]▶
Thank you, unfortunately, almost zero.
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gregsadetsky ◴[13 Oct 25 16:57 UTC] No.45570632[source]▶
hey, not to give you "armchair" advice, but I feel like a tool that's existed for 11 years and has 11k daily users is a super serious achievement.

I'd vicariously love for you to be able to make some/more revenue with this!

+1 on @redox99's comment that charging in rubles is most probably confusing, and that a flat $10 usd/month would be easier. I also would think that renewal should actually be on by default, not off - if people want the service and/or to support you, having auto renewal off is more of a hassle for them (the customers who want to pay you!) as they'd have to have to... re-enable their service? every 30-90 days?

and another point I wanted to bring up is that it feels to me like a small text-based advertisement from ethicalads.io (the folks behind the ads on Read the Docs sites) or carbonads.net (btw I have no affiliation to either) could definitely... bring in some not-bad revenue pretty much immediately?

again, huge congrats on your project and I truly wish you'll be able to find some path to monetization. cheers!

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1. alexchamberlain ◴[13 Oct 25 18:48 UTC] No.45571949[source]▶
> charging in rubles is most probably confusing, and that a flat $10 usd/month would be easier

As a Brit, I'd rather GBP...

Isn't this comment a form of US defaultism?

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2. gregsadetsky ◴[13 Oct 25 18:55 UTC] No.45572018[source]▶
for sure, my point was that usd would already be "better" (more common) than rubles - but yes, 'localized' currencies would be great too (although setting up "adaptive pricing" is a task in itself). baby steps :-)
3. knowitnone3 ◴[13 Oct 25 19:07 UTC] No.45572135[source]▶
As a rabbit, I'd rather carrots...

Isn't this comment a form of Brit defaultism?

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4. alexchamberlain ◴[13 Oct 25 19:14 UTC] No.45572206[source]▶
My point was more about the original comment is fine from the perspective of an American, but for the rest of the world, it doesn’t really matter if it is USD or rubles - it’s still a foreign transaction. I appreciate that for a large percentage of the world, consumers can probably do an approximation of the USD conversion in their head, and not a rubles one, and therefore, USD may be more friendly. That being said, the sales page has already got the approximation in USD anyway, which would be enough for me.
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5. handoflixue ◴[14 Oct 25 03:40 UTC] No.45576030{3}[source]▶
I'd imagine most English-speaking internet users have gotten used to doing local-to-USD conversions. As someone in the US, I usually know about where CAD, AUD, and GBP are relative to me.

Even if you don't know the conversion, something in the range of 50-200% is a lot easier to adjust to, whereas Rubles are on a very different scale (1 GBP = 108 Rubles)

Obviously the ideal would be local listings, but USD is probably the most-familiar reference point if you have to choose exactly one

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6. RamblingCTO ◴[14 Oct 25 07:24 UTC] No.45577163{3}[source]▶
That implies that all currencies have the same connotation. USD/Pounds/Euros seems much more not scammy to me tha baht or rubles. Especially the latter ones would prevent me from paying in that. Russia is a scam nation.
7. nasmorn ◴[14 Oct 25 14:38 UTC] No.45580618{3}[source]▶
USD and rubles are definitely not the same from my euro using perspective.
8. tracker1 ◴[14 Oct 25 16:36 UTC] No.45582061{4}[source]▶
I have to agree.. given the amount of international business transacted in USD it's a pretty well known currency secondary in most of the world followed by EU then Chinese Yuan and GBP. That said, being in the US can't say how widespread rough translation values of Yuan are to most people outside the Asian/Pacific region.
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