I think #[2] and team provide good value for fees, but I imagine they will lose greater than 75% of current filter users at that cost.
Subscription models usually start low and grow costs as subscribers plateau. I don’t see 10,000 sats as low but, I don’t know their operating costs, so maybe 10k/month is low 🤷♂️
Regardless, I think fee per note is the future of #nostr
Early days still.
I think you may greatly overestimate our number of filter users. It’s actually a fairly small % of total nostr.wine users and they are very passionate. By some of my guesses, almost 10% of our filter.nostr.wine users have already renewed tonight (in the last 2 hours).
I used filter.nostr.wine quite a bit when you launched but these days I use only my small single 🍊⚡️relay for my global. Helps me keep up with my 50 or so subscribers.
Certainly I don’t know your business data, but I do make my living understanding consumer behavior. I applaud 👏 you for innovating both on the relay tech and subscription model. Good luck 🍀
Thank you! For what it’s worth, if we do lose most of our users, at least we will be able to provide a worthwhile product to the ones that stick around. Without adding a subscription model to filter its unrivaled performance and features would die if we grew.
We’ll keep nostr.wine as open (one time fee and free to read) as we possibly can. We’ll also keep innovating and introducing new free relays like welcome.nostr.wine. We want to help grow nostr and keep contributing to this ecosystem.
