Just from my rudimentary math skills, I'm not sure the pay-per-achievement assignment would work. As an example, let's say I have 10,000 active users per month, and from their activity, they achieve 10 things per month. At one penny per, I would be shelling out $1000 per month for your service, $12,000 per year. Simply put, hell no. Perhaps, a better pricing plan would be in tiers with fixed costs, and notifications if one were nearing the limit of their chosen tier?
Also, for that $1000 alone, I could probably hire a developer to build an achievement system on my own server for my own sites. Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?
Just so its clear, with this idea you would have to build you own achievement system regardless. You're just giving the site a copy of it.
Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?
It really depends on the complexity of the 'rules' which award the badges and how often you update the requirements or add new badges. If your badges are going be like "post a photo!" then you really don't need one. But, if you have a very high traffic site and a badge that is awarded if X happens 100 times & Y happens 200 times OR Z happens 3000 times... then you have to consider how you will manage these requirements. And also how much extra load you're adding to your database every time a user performs one of those actions.
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Just from my rudimentary math skills, I'm not sure the pay-per-achievement assignment would work. As an example, let's say I have 10,000 active users per month, and from their activity, they achieve 10 things per month. At one penny per, I would be shelling out $1000 per month for your service, $12,000 per year. Simply put, hell no. Perhaps, a better pricing plan would be in tiers with fixed costs, and notifications if one were nearing the limit of their chosen tier?
Also, for that $1000 alone, I could probably hire a developer to build an achievement system on my own server for my own sites. Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?
Just so its clear, with this idea you would have to build you own achievement system regardless. You're just giving the site a copy of it.
Just curious, what would the incentive be for me as a site owner to pay for your service as opposed to building my own?
It really depends on the complexity of the 'rules' which award the badges and how often you update the requirements or add new badges. If your badges are going be like "post a photo!" then you really don't need one. But, if you have a very high traffic site and a badge that is awarded if X happens 100 times & Y happens 200 times OR Z happens 3000 times... then you have to consider how you will manage these requirements. And also how much extra load you're adding to your database every time a user performs one of those actions.