Anything getting enough traffic to cross the free barrier should be able to have a revenue stream. Especially if you thought it was going to be a commercial venture. And this is cold hearted but if you have loyal users who are using the app that much and none of them will pony up $.50 a month... That's rough.
The Reason I don't think anyone should complain about the $9 number is that anyone should be able to put Adsense on their app and make $9. I may be biased, but I have an App that averages a penny a day right now, and generates $2500 a month in Adsense. There has to be some economic model that works between my extreme and yours. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeff Schnitzer Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [google-appengine] Re: FAQ for out of preview pricing changes On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Brandon Wirtz <[email protected]> wrote: > Put some ads on it and it should get to the $9 a month. Put a donate > button on it. It's never that simple, and certainly isn't in this case. That said, Google certainly doesn't owe anyone a free service layer, nor a linear ramp-up to paid service. And apps around the limit of the free service tier are probably something to discourage since they actually consume resources. Still, I'm more likely to contribute *some* money for my forlorn projects if the cost was not a discontiguous function. Jeff -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
