We've launched with a price of $49.99/year, but we realized it's too high. We're lowering it to $19.99/year or $1.99/month.

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Segments

• [01:14] How we decided to lower the price for Metacast
• [03:03] Initially we had three plans
• [04:48] Pulling the andon cord
• [06:40] One password app's reference point
• [08:21] Why we're not adding ads
• [11:35] Enshittification of consumer apps
• [14:21] Our costs for running the app
• [17:52] Rolling out the pricing change
• [20:05] Podcast and book recommendations

Show notes

Podcasts

• Previous episodes with Jennie: 42. Equity compensation at a pre-revenue bootstrapped startup, 17. From Teacher to Software Engineer at Amazon
• Handsome
• The Mark Zuckerberg Interview - Acquired
• Meta’s Race for Your Face + Google’s Hit A.I. Notebook + HatGPT - Hard Fork
• #446 – Ed Barnhart: Maya, Aztec, Inca, and Lost Civilizations of South America - Lex Fridman Podcast
• #369 – Paul Rosolie: Amazon Jungle, Uncontacted Tribes, Anacondas, and Ayahuasca - Lex Fridman Podcast
• #429 – Paul Rosolie: Jungle, Apex Predators, Aliens, Uncontacted Tribes, and God - Lex Fridman Podcast

Books

• Fast Second: How Smart Companies Bypass Radical Innovation to Enter and Dominate New Markets by Constantinos C. Markides, Paul A. Geroski

Get in touch

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