We’re about to ship one on saasco. Works out at .25c/1k emails for members. No per subscriber or monthly commitments. LMK if you’re keen to check it out [email protected]

You could build this on saasco, we just charge the infra costs and you don't have to manage anything. Check out #saasco

Costs about $1/100k page views

It's API first so you can retrieve any data you want and display it in your site.
Shoot me an email [email protected] if you want to check it out.

We were building for consumers, and then merchants started reaching out via customer support asking for features.

We ended up building a subscription tool that catered to their needs, and over time that grew faster than the consumer side, until it was a majority of our revenue.

But I remember when their requests first started coming in we weren't interested in it at all, because we were focussed somewhere else. In hindsight I think we could have adapted quicker and been more attentive to how people were using the platform.

Ultimately I think it's an interesting challenge when you have a vision for something and then users start pulling you in another direction. As a founder it's a bit interesting from a motivation standpoint.

FWIW we had a bunch of feedback from customers which weren't our target audience on #thieve in the early days, eventually that group of customers accounted for 95% of revenue.

so cool