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It’s still a hard sell. Netflix was running at 8.99 back in the day, I pay $5 for Spotify and Hulu combo as a student. These companies pay royalties, have to secure licenses, have the equipment to feed multimedia to me, apps, Netflix even makes shows now, etc. If they want to get to the average user they’ll need to figure out either a student discount, a combo with another service, light ads like Hulu or optimize their costs.

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I agree. I like kagi, I like it better than Google. But it's not _that_ much better. Certainly not $10 a month better.

For comparison, I pay $3/month for mightytext. Which is a tool for Android that lets me send/view/search text messages on my phone from any browser. I'd pay $10/month for it, but kagi doesn't give me nearly that much value

I'm very glad that my value scale doesnt concern itself with the difference between $3 and $10, I can't imagine going through day to day like that with that level of granularity. That is literally less than the price of a single pizza. A single potato at the store is probably $3

EDIT: I just signed up for Kagi. Youre out of your mind if this isnt worth $10, holy crap this is awesome. The amount of configurations and settings is out of this world. Unless you use google 5 times per month this far exceeds its cost.

I'm glad you're making a lot of money so you can afford to spend 10$ without thinking. Good for you.

It's less about money and more about the mental energy required to distill such a granular view of money/value. $3 is basically the same as $10, or even $50. Even when I slept on the floor of an office building and made $10/hr I never thought like that. It is madness to me. Spend that energy thinking how to make $10 more, which is incredibly easy, far far easier than the mental energy micromanaging single dollars.

If 10$ per hour seems like a low wage for you, that explains it.

It is a low wage... it is literally $5 less than minimum wage.

And also, nothing I said literally changes at all, whether its $7, 10, or $12.

In my country, minimum wage is about 4$ per hour. And as a student, I don't get any wage at all, aside from random one-time jobs and scholarships.

$10/hr is $2.75/hr _above_ the minimum wage

Not feeding my innermost thoughts to an ad network is absolutely worth $10/mo to me.

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