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A dollar a day is $30/month, and at $1.99/sale that means OP would need to sell 15 apps ONLY to break even, which given the comments in the blog might be close to reality. This is pennies for both sides, but the way that Yelp distastefully contacted OP is probably worth just shutting the whole thing, it's not like OP was making bank on the app to begin with.

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Throw on taxes, administrative overheads, etc, they are probably looking at 30-45 sales per month. Which is likely not realistic.

On top of that, this is a continuous payment. Even if I was looking at 5-10x rate of return, I would be very hesitant as that's the rate-of-return today while the sales are forever.

I've been wondering how realistic microsubscriptions are... Say $1-2 dollars a month per user to maintain an app, perhaps limited to just power users, would support a lot of infrastructure.

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