It’s just API passthrough isn’t it? The title and the branding make it seem like you can get access to the $200+/mo tools and just pay for usage but this just looks like the API. If it’s not the using the API, I imagine it will get shutdown quickly.
Also, your FAQ is sloppy and clearly AI generated.
The one time a company did this here it was beautiful. Loopnet was set up this way in the beginning. So if you only needed one report, you could just buy that one and not have to worry about recurring charges or unused time. The alternative is to never sign up for anything and watch as promising, potentially useful stuff dies on the vine. That's been my approach lately as the other way is too much hassle for a small scale, single-user. If all of SaaS is only meant for corps with 50 seats or more...it's going to get nasty out there because people aren't forming companies like they used to..and lean teams are the future.
It is a huge issue. Newspapers give everyone 90% off for a whole year in hopes of conversion (or customers forgetting to cancel), but they do not see this as an issue.
I don't think they'll do very well in the future if they refuse to change.
Another company that I know about who successfully sold/partnered with big news companies told me that it's almost impossible. The execs refuse to change and the only reason they got those partnerships were because of their advisors who were ex-media execs.
It's going to be an uphill battle, but I'm not writing it off just yet.
Not do well in future....hahahahah.
They don't officially have a future. And this is from a wannabe reporter..who once won a placement in a special edition of The Boston Globe. They gave up everything they are supposed to stand for and shot their supposed integrity in the face. The Buzzfeed/Gawker years finished them off. They should have paid for a mercenary team to rescue Daniel Pearl...instead the World watched his execution and expressed their sadness and shock PFFt!!!
Instead of investing in Timberland and ink factories-did you know ink sells for over $1k an ounce?-and whatever was growing laterally, they dug their heels in and now they are dead in all but name. Most of the "stories" they print are nothing more than ads and even the WSJ gutted itself after Murdoch bought them. The Personal finance section was one of the best with the best copywritten sales letter ever. They cut that too. But occasionally, I need a story and having to pile them up for several months to make the buy worthwhile is exceedingly annoying.
two_handfuls•8mo ago
How do I know it's cheaper? Surely, that would depend on how much I use it? Yet your website confidently claims a $10/mo cost instead of $200/mo.
I'm sure you're aboveboard, but the website sure makes this proposition look too good to be true!
JonanJ•8mo ago
Not only that, but subscriptions are going to kill startups.
33% of consumers wont get a new subscription unless they cancel an existing one.
Literally the definition of a zero-sum game as this number is increasing, but the new apps that come into market every single day are defaulting to subscriptions...