• rglullis@communick.news
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    18 hours ago

    I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab

    No, I will look at kebab shops in your area and see how much they are charging, and I will check if their operation is actually profitable (instead of being a front for someone who needs to launder money) and I will see if they have enough customers paying the asking price. If the math checks out and if I see an opportunity for the market, then I’d go invest time and resources to open a shop there.

    There is no such thing for “hosting providers that have been audited and can certify that the data is secured and properly managed”. And given you are the first person saying “I’d pay for that”, why do you think is somehow offensive to be asked “How much?”

    Someone sees a potential opportunity (…) does the research,

    Yeah, part of the research is exactly going to potential customers and asking how much are you willing to pay for this?.

    Seriously, I do not get what is so weird about asking it.

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      18 hours ago

      Well I’m glad you would go into the depth of researching the economic viability of something when you think “I’d like to have this amenity”.

      But I don’t. Because why the fuck would I?

      If someone wants to go through the work of researching the costs of setting up such a service, layout the costs, and make some proposals and how much they’d need to charge to the community I’d happily contribute.

      Until then…dude you took an offhand “Hey I’d like to see something like this” and turned it into some weird obsession with making me name how much i’d spend on something.

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        17 hours ago

        In case you didn’t notice, I have a hosting business. This is why I’m “obsessed” in figuring out how much someone would pay for it, if they were serious about what they are asking.

        By asking you “how much would you pay?”, I’m trying to gauge how serious you are about it. Your refusal to go ahead and name any amount for something that you said “I’d pay for that” shows me that you are not serious about it and therefore a bad idea.

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          No, I didn’t. Probably because you never said you did. Weird how that works.

          Now, had you said “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable” I probably would have given my input.

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            1 hour ago

            you never said it.

            The whole conversation started with me talking about Communick offering a subscription service. Communick is my business. I thought that was clear. My bad if it wasn’t.

            “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable”

            That’s not a good approach, because Y changes depending on the price point and X changes on what these Y customers would expect from the service.

            The only variable that can be fixed here is “how much you are willing to pay”, so this is why I am asking it.