Pricing and Payment Services
As previously discussed, next Monday will be the initial public release of FeedLounge. We’ve done quite a bit of number crunching with the data collected during our alpha testing, and we’ve finalized the pricing structure for our beta release.
Pricing
- $5/month
- $49.95/year
We believe that this pricing will work on both sides of the equation. It will allow us to cover server, bandwidth and development costs so that the service can be trusted to be viable and self-sustaining; and it is low enough (about the cost of a fast food meal) that it shouldn’t be a financial burden to those wanting to use the service.
There has been a lot of discussion recently about web 2.0 applications and struggles with reliability. There are very real expenses that go along with running a service like this and no one will be happy if we aren’t able to grow our infrastructure along with our user base. We are very cognizant of the challenges that lie ahead in offering this type of service, and we are doing our best to act responsibly towards our users.
As a thank you and as previously promised, all alpha users (regardless of their participation level) will be given a 2 month credit as a thank you for their help in the alpha.
Demo/Free Trial
We will be offering a demo/free trial of FeedLounge so that you can test it out before you sign up. However, to make sure that the demo system is as responsive as the production system, this demo will be gated due to the high server load associated with initial account set-up (importing OPML and new feed subscriptions). The details of this have not been fully finalized yet, and will likely be announced on Monday the 16th.
Payments
For our initial beta launch, we will be accepting payments exclusively through PayPal. If you have a PayPal account, you can sign up for a monthly or annual subscription (as priced above). If you do not have a PayPal account and do not want to create one, you can purchase one year of service (priced the same as the annual subscription) with a credit card through PayPal, without creating a PayPal account. The monthly subscription is only available through a PayPal account at this time.
We understand that some people prefer not to use PayPal for various reasons, and we’ll be adding additional payment methods as we move forward. We are primarily focused on building great features into FeedLounge right now, and using a single payment processing system helps us keep that focus.
Information about pricing and payments is now posted in a the FAQ list as well.
A very reasonable pricing scheme, assuming you will be even half as committed to quality and reliability with FeedLounge as you’ve been with your other products.
Good luck on the Launch!!
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Aww, I was hoping for $4.95 and $49.95… so much for consistency!
For those too lazy to do the math, the yearly plan comes out to be about $4.16 a month ($4.1625 if you forgot your OCD meds this morning).
Hurry up and open the gates, Alex… I’m ready to sign on the dotted line!
Well, y’all know how I feel about $##.95 pricing.
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Are you serious about pricing ?
i was thinking it should be free and ads must cover your expenses
ok, let it sleep but please show full feature list,
thanks!
I’m not ready to say whether this is a fair price or not. I’d have to see the platform. Waiting on the demo, but it sounds a bit too much.
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(That doesn’t mean it isn’t a fair price, it just means i need to get a job.
I’ve been an alpha tester for a few months now, and at least for me, $5/month is extremely reasonable.
FeedLounge blows all of the other web-based feed readers away. Especially Bloglines, which seems to be one of the most used ones.
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