Hi everyone,
I've been working on a side project for the past few weeks. It has helped me refresh (and really learn) my PHP skills which could be useful regardless.
How it come about: I texted a joke to my fiancee in the middle of the day and she said not only it made her day, but she approached her coworkers who were having an intense convo, and told them the joke and it helped ease their day too. Our thought then was "what if we could just text a joke to people randomly throughout the week as a way to lighten up their day?". Idea born, I started to work on it.
What I have so far: I already have the website basically set up and a mini-cms behind it (with authentication) to send a text to myself as a test OR a text to everyone that is subscribed in the database.
What is left to do: Create a payment flow/system so users subscribe on a cheap monthly basis.
My question/feedback ask: My original thought was to let users sign up for free for a week so they can get a sense of how it works and then have them sign up for $1/month. Simple and cheap process. However, as I was researching payment methods, Stripe seems to charge 2.9% + 30cents of each transaction. Which would leave me with $0.60 per user.
So I was thinking, should I just make it $2/month instead? Would a $1 difference really deter users from paying at all? Is this something you guys think people would even pay for in the first place? My fiancee seems to think it should just be something we do for free and fun...but it costs money to send texts and I would also like to at least make SOME money out of it.
Any thoughts/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I've been working on a side project for the past few weeks. It has helped me refresh (and really learn) my PHP skills which could be useful regardless.
How it come about: I texted a joke to my fiancee in the middle of the day and she said not only it made her day, but she approached her coworkers who were having an intense convo, and told them the joke and it helped ease their day too. Our thought then was "what if we could just text a joke to people randomly throughout the week as a way to lighten up their day?". Idea born, I started to work on it.
What I have so far: I already have the website basically set up and a mini-cms behind it (with authentication) to send a text to myself as a test OR a text to everyone that is subscribed in the database.
What is left to do: Create a payment flow/system so users subscribe on a cheap monthly basis.
My question/feedback ask: My original thought was to let users sign up for free for a week so they can get a sense of how it works and then have them sign up for $1/month. Simple and cheap process. However, as I was researching payment methods, Stripe seems to charge 2.9% + 30cents of each transaction. Which would leave me with $0.60 per user.
So I was thinking, should I just make it $2/month instead? Would a $1 difference really deter users from paying at all? Is this something you guys think people would even pay for in the first place? My fiancee seems to think it should just be something we do for free and fun...but it costs money to send texts and I would also like to at least make SOME money out of it.
Any thoughts/feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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