With the recent increase in signups and increased listings. I have to look at cost structure to get ahead of costs. Obviously, this might be a sensitive subject but I am running this site out of pocket without any advertisers at the moment.
I'm building out an advertisement system but until I can implement it, I wanted to ask the community what your thoughts are on limiting the number of active listings.
Proposed
I'm being super transparent with everyone because why not.
If you want more listing or would like to help out the service sign up for a membership to receive 8 listings x 5 images for $5/mo or some fixed amount annually / semi annually.
Let me know your thoughts. I'm alright right now, but if we get to 10k-20k its going to start to cost some meaningful $ and I'd like to be prepared vs. surprised so that we can continue to build all the way to 50-100k users without an issue.
I hope its obvious, I don't expect everyone will pay or want to. I just need enough who believe in the platform to help foster its growth and keep it going.
You can leave a suggestion below and readers can upvote what you think are good alternatives.
Thank you for reading and contributing!
I'm building out an advertisement system but until I can implement it, I wanted to ask the community what your thoughts are on limiting the number of active listings.
- Currently the limit is set to 5 active listings per user with 3 images each.
- The file size is limited to 150kb per user which we shrink on the backend one the user uploads.
- 5 listings x 3 (150kb) images = ~2.25 Mb per user
- At our current scale if everyone had a listing 1500 * 3(150kb) = 6.7Gb of images + bandwidth to serve to users.
Proposed
- The thought is to limit the listings to 3 active for registered member where its 9 images * 150kb = 1.5Mb free + transfer .
- I may need to limit it to 1 image .
I'm being super transparent with everyone because why not.
If you want more listing or would like to help out the service sign up for a membership to receive 8 listings x 5 images for $5/mo or some fixed amount annually / semi annually.
- Benefits of a subscriber program
- Supporter Badge
- More listings
- More images
- Banner for your profile
- Avatar is free
- Fewer ads once they get implemented
- Early access to new features and documentation
- Other things as we continue to build out the system.
Let me know your thoughts. I'm alright right now, but if we get to 10k-20k its going to start to cost some meaningful $ and I'd like to be prepared vs. surprised so that we can continue to build all the way to 50-100k users without an issue.
I hope its obvious, I don't expect everyone will pay or want to. I just need enough who believe in the platform to help foster its growth and keep it going.
You can leave a suggestion below and readers can upvote what you think are good alternatives.
Thank you for reading and contributing!