We're switching to Free + Ad-Supported

ben1040 · on April 1, 2012

This is a perfectly cromulent business model

This gave away the April Fool gag right in the second paragraph, but still had me laughing. Good work.

hechtic · on April 1, 2012

Since everyone on HN uses an Ad Blocker anyway, I'd recommend the Free + Spyware business model instead.

jaredsohn · on April 1, 2012

People don't have ad blockers for e-mails, texts, and audio which is where these ads would appear.

ab · on April 1, 2012

Hilarious. I can't wait to see content relevant to my interests in my PD alerts.

ultrasaurus · on April 1, 2012

Finally a bold move that proves we aren't in a bubble.

eladgil · on April 1, 2012

Totally! If it was a bubble, PagerDuty would be paying their users a monthly amount to "get big even faster"

MattBearman · on April 1, 2012

Unfortunately I missed the fact it was an April fools gag, as I tend to stop reading anything when I see the phrase "next Facebook or Google"...

tomjen3 · on April 1, 2012

Great. Now all I will have to do is to put the phone down for 30 seconds.