Just how many $10 /MOS subscriptions do startups expect us to sign up for?

Re:Just how many $10 /MOS subscriptions do startups expect u... by bhag2066 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:48PM (#44253870)

Not the OP but I personally would be interested in people's perspective on the # of $10 subscriptions the average person can sustain.

Using Fermi estimation, is it: 1, 10, 100? I would say 1 because I don't believe businesses can create enough value (save them time or money) for the average person to justify spending $100/month on subscriptions.

Another thought is how CISO's found themselves with 20 cyber subscriptions and found themselves wanting to consolidated down. So I would make this the absolute upper limit.

So I have somewhere between 1-20 with the average across the consumer population being somewhere closer to 1 than 20.

The implication being that there is a lot of pain coming for the long tail of startups trying to make it with a $10/month subscription model.

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Re:Just how many $10 /MOS subscriptions do startups expect u... by bhag2066 on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @10:49PM (#44253878)

But hey, we're in a bubble so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Just how many $10 /MOS subscriptions do startups expect u... by mackenziebowes on Saturday June 14, 2025 @09:03PM (#44279873)

Most startups are massively over capexed, yea.

I think it’s still reasonable for solo devs or polymaths to shoot for solving small $5-$10/mo problems. Finding 1000 folks for $10/mo out of all 1,000,000,000 in anglosphere countries seems not hard, it just doesn’t make you a millionaire or afford staff.

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