I just cancelled - not because I thought the policy change was real - but simply because this article reminded me I hadn't used it much this month.
I just cancelled - not because I thought the policy change was real - but simply because this article reminded me I hadn't used it much this month.
This is where Kagi’s subscription policy comes in handy. If you don’t use it for a month, you don’t pay for it that month. There is no need to cancel it and Kagi doesn’t have to pay user acquisition costs.
Slack does this as well. It's a genius idea from a business perspective. Normally IT admins have to go around asking users if they need the service (or more likely you have to request a license for yourself), regularly monitor usage, deactivate stale users etc., all to make sure the company isn't wasting money. Slack comes along and says - don't worry, just onboard every user at the company. If they don't log in and send at least N messages we won't bill them for that month.
They mention an user taking an action will be billed. I guess even sending a message or reacting with an emoji would count as taking an action ? Even logging in ?
That's a fun one. It could be interpreted as a generous implementation of a monthly subscription, or a hostile implementation of a metered plan.
Wow, I wish more services did that.
Kagi should take it a step further and just charge per search
History shows that metered plans are extremely unpopular whether it be cell phone service, video, music etc.
Just have both. I'm massively off-put by the pricing tiers of Kagi because I feel my search habits are somewhere between tier 1 and 2 and tier 1 is an acceptable price and tier 2 is not. If I could just pay for what I use then I'd be happy
surely the first thing you do when you subscribe to Kagi is set your default browser search to Kagi.
Really? Brilliant idea.
so the old adage no such thing as bad PR shows to be incorrect. had they not been in the news, they'd at least have gotten one more monthly sub from you!
This would only be complete in aggregate. We don’t know how many people signed up as a result.