<story><title>Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard</title><url>http://statuschart.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattwdelong</author><text>This is pretty neat, but it&apos;s not something I would enter my CC details for and pay for each month. I would however drop a one time ~$25 fee and self host it on my own server, and &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt; use it. At least this way, I will see it running on my server and periodically update it.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m just one person of many, but when I see neat little apps like this I would always much rather pay for it outright than pay for it each month. I don&apos;t know why more people don&apos;t sell cool services like this. Chances are I am going to just cancel it after a month anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>natep</author><text>Especially for something like this. I might not need this to land a job for years, but when I do, I&apos;ll want to know that all the work I put into adding content to this won&apos;t have been wasted (i.e. service disappears for any number of reasons, OP is already 98% busy :/).&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s not so say that a hosted, subscription service wouldn&apos;t be useful for some, but self-hosing would allow users to solve problems for themselves that would otherwise be feature requests, and hard to design well for everyone.&lt;p&gt;I know OP doesn&apos;t want to be another LinkedIn, but there&apos;s no reason why he or someone else couldn&apos;t create an opt-in browsable database of these for better discoverability. How awesome would it be if you could click a link next to your hackathon entry and see the status page of other attendees?</text></comment>
<story><title>Status Chart: Your Personal Status Dashboard</title><url>http://statuschart.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattwdelong</author><text>This is pretty neat, but it&apos;s not something I would enter my CC details for and pay for each month. I would however drop a one time ~$25 fee and self host it on my own server, and &lt;i&gt;maybe&lt;/i&gt; use it. At least this way, I will see it running on my server and periodically update it.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m just one person of many, but when I see neat little apps like this I would always much rather pay for it outright than pay for it each month. I don&apos;t know why more people don&apos;t sell cool services like this. Chances are I am going to just cancel it after a month anyway.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>1123581321</author><text>For hosted, an annual fee is appropriate here. A $25 annual fee is quite similar to a one-time fee of $25 because once it is paid, there is nothing to do but use it for an entire year. After a year, it&apos;s very obvious whether the app is worth another $25 or not. Either way the developer&apos;s compensation is nearly the same assuming many accounts share the low cost of the servers.</text></comment>