Content moderation is another one - farm it off to an external entity like Accenture to manage and you are at arms length from putting some poor content moderator in front of some pretty disturbing content.
Hey there, indeed I put an upsell screen at the end of the download because our mobile apps are currently the most advanced background remover and image editing tools we have.
The price for the mobile app is $9.50 per month and there's a free version.
Why did you choose a monthly subscription model? I’m genuinely curious because I’m a “one off” user. I don’t use it frequently enough to justify a recurring monthly cost.
Have you considered a bulk credits payment model (ex. $19.99 for 1,000 photo processing credits) for users like me?
We started as a mobile app and the subscription model was the obvious choice here. Most of our pro users are hardcore PhotoRoom users that will need this on multiple occasions.
Now for one off users this is a good question, especially on the web where this could make more sense. I know some tools (remove.bg) that have this system so we'll think about it.
Um … “most of our users are users who will pay for this model” doesn’t really prove what you think it proves.
But more to the point $120 - $240 assuming major versions last a year or two is too much relative to, say, apps in Adobe suite or especially too much relative to the new sleek photo editing apps and suites for MacOS and iOS (like Affinity).
I mean. Yes and no. Someone doing some CRUD apps at some car insurance firm just to put dinner on the table is completely fine.
But then you have Theranos and WeWork and all of that late '90s dot-com crap. Most of those companies had nothing to do with tech, but still raked in lots of VC money hoping to sucker people into purchasing their worthless stock after their inflated IPOs.
Of course, it has to be mentioned that the line between fraud and value gets incredibly fuzzy in tech. So much tech is "solutionized" into products that solve problems that are nonsense to begin with. Everyone believes they need cloud-this, or managed K8S, or auto-scaling whatever. The whole industry looks like a fraud at times. Especially enterprise marketing and sales. IBM, Oracle, and others have made a racket on this. And yes they have actual products with actual features, what they are selling are dreams and fairy tales. Look closely at crypto and you'll see the same cottage industry around it today. I mean, what is NFT other than credit default swaps (CDS) for the art market? It's abstracted ownership ("ownership" with a huge asterisk next to it). You even have initial coin offerings (ICO). Every thing from the dot-com and 2008 financial engineering crisis have all been replicated in crypto.
Dot-com bubble was real companies with inflated valuations from speculators and experimental business models that weren't all solvent.
Theranos was trying to make and sell a real product but the product didn't work so they lied and cheated to cover that up because they had nothing else to offer.
Every business is dreams and fairytales because extra sizzle gets more customers
It's different from cryptocurrencies which are pure scam plays from the start.
That assumes there is no harm in what they are doing. A lot of these cryptos are more like pyramid schemes. Selling freezers is one thing, but if you know the freezer has some major defects and you continue selling them telling everyone how great they are while misleading them about issues then it is more like a scam. Don't get me wrong, some cryptos have the potential to make a lot of people money but often the people making the money are the initial investors not the public.
> often the people making the money are the initial investors not the public
What is wrong with this? Of course people who believed in cryptocurrencies since the beginning have seen greater returns compared to people who started investing now.
Every investment disproportionally rewards early adopters. Stocks, even simple savings accounts.
Sowing wildflowers is becoming more popular here in Ireland. You can buy wildflower mixes or seed bombs but the expert view is to just stop mowing, there are enough dormant seeds in the soil. And those that are present are generally more suitable to the local environment than anything you'd introduce.
OAG aggregate timetable data from airlines and distribute that aggregated feed.
You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they count that as 525 seats as opposed to however many people took the flight.
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