Comment on Ask HN: How to increase users and awareness for free online serviceComments−bigyabai1yAm I missing something here? Why are you spending money to promote a service that doesn't make you money in return...?−jantricOP1yIf there are enough users then it should be possible to devise some other monetization scheme to make the service self-supported. perhaps donations. e.g. Wikipedia is completely free, but no one would doubt its usefulness.−JohnFen1yI was wondering the same thing. It seems a bit sus.
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Am I missing something here? Why are you spending money to promote a service that doesn't make you money in return...?
If there are enough users then it should be possible to devise some other monetization scheme to make the service self-supported. perhaps donations. e.g. Wikipedia is completely free, but no one would doubt its usefulness.
I was wondering the same thing. It seems a bit sus.