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Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users

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464 points sqliteonline | 1 comments | 13 Oct 25 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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1. gregsadetsky ◴[13 Oct 25 18:55 UTC] No.45572018{4}[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 :-)