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Re:Show HN: What do you think of my new social app? by newswasboring on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @10:16AM (#30178683)
I swear I am not trying to be a jerk, but I have heard this way too many times but have never seen this succeed in a way which adds to the service. Most of the times the paid premium feature is "no ads" or less wait times etc. Especially for a social networks, I can't even imagine what feature you can build which will make me pay you to be in touch with my friends.

One point against my argument might be reddit gold kind of stuff. They are more of a status signal. You can monetize status signals.

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Re:Show HN: What do you think of my new social app? by jstrafy on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:25PM (#30180707)
That's a solid point and hence why we've been reluctant to set out a future monetisation strategy. However...

In terms of monetising utility, Beeper/Texts.com seem to be getting a lot of attention, where they charge 10$ a month for their interoperable chat service. People seem to be happy to pay to have a centralised client for all their chats.

Otherwise as you've mentioned you have status signals, which is the case for Twitter Blue too. There's also the dating apps.

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