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gyey | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you set prices?

I saw what Envato elements did with their pricing. They started off at $19 a month, and declared that their prices would increase as they came out of beta, had a full launch, etc. but the older customers would retain their lower prices. Their pricing was to go up from $19 to $49, so there was a lot of incentive for early customers to lock into the lower price.

If you look at the pricing page now, the price is fixed at $29. So maybe mentioning the $49 price point was just a marketing trick to lure customers in to the lower price. They also give a discounted price of $19 at cybermonday, etc.. What do you think of this approach? Can approaches like this be considered ethical?

gyey | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you set prices?

Thanks for the comment. But Github (to take one example) has pricing that starts from $7 a month. This despite of having a free tier. What's your opinion on that? Is it because they target developers and not businesses at that price point? Even their organisation plan starts at I think $11.

If Github priced it so low, I guess they wanted to capture that segment of developers who would pay $7 a month but no more. It makes me want to price my product too at $7 a month at a lower tier. Any comments on this please?

gyey | 9 years ago | on: In praise of cash

To be the devil's advocate here, what situation can you imagine that would warrant a person to legitimately hide information or keep secrets from their own government?

gyey | 9 years ago | on: Top Sites to Receive SMS Online Without a Phone

How are physical numbers different from virtual numbers? What would be the advantage of using a physical number? Why do they cost 120 times as much as a virtual number? How is this better than using Twilio?

(Virtual number is $5 a month and physical number is $20 a day)

gyey | 9 years ago | on: What If Time Really Exists? (2008)

Science becomes religion when scientists ignore empirical evidence in front of them because their textbooks or theories point out that that evidence cannot possibly exist, and then proceed to call those presenting that evidence as unscientific or irreligious.

gyey | 9 years ago | on: The Indian government is set to endorse Universal Basic Income

I don't see how they would afford this. Rough approximations show that even giving $20 a month to India's 900 million adult population would mean an annual expenditure of 216 billion dollars, more than 4 times the country's annual defence budget. Where does all this money come from? Increased taxes from the middle class (so that they pay $40 to get $20)?

gyey | 9 years ago | on: AWS Shield – Managed DDoS Protection

Precisely. The majority of people who are be afraid of using AWS services for the risk of a bill shock due to a DDoS would be small customers who won't be able to afford the 3,000$ per month price tag for the advanced shield anyways. For them, it's still risky to use AWS.

gyey | 9 years ago | on: Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

I haven't actually worked with GCM so please forgive me if this doesn't make any sense. I suggest that, instead of routing all messages through GCM, what if Signal could send a "wake up" message via GCM, and then let the app pull the encrypted messages directly out of Signal's servers? A wake up message would only be sent by the server if the message could not be received by the client via normal means (implying that the device is asleep).

An optional user preference could allow some dummy wake up messages to be sent at random moments during the day, to support plausible deniability, at the cost of slightly worse battery life performance. This would all happen silently and the user would only notice a message notification when the app successfully fetches a new incoming message.

gyey | 9 years ago | on: iPhone 7

But the lightening port is a closed standard, as opposed to USB. It would have made much more sense here if Apple had used USB-C instead of lightening.

gyey | 9 years ago | on: Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter

I have noticed that a redirect to any site on sites.google.com also works seamlessly on mobile. The amp pages are not working for me and I get an error page, but as someone mentioned they probably don't work on mobile and only on desktop.
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