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Phosphor [&]@bazelgeuse-apologist11/28/2023, 11:01 PM

super curious how profitable/sustainable carrd (the website builder that like everyone uses) is. like, it FEELS LIKE the majority of their userbase is kids who wouldn't have the money to drop on a premium plan. but also, carrds are just fancy-looking-but-actually-really-basic static sites and static site hosting is apparently dirt cheap

how many free carrd users does one person paying for premium cover for? how much of a paying userbase exists and what do they use it for? I have so many burning questions

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Æ et al. [&]@AE-et-al11/29/2023, 1:13 AM

We pay for carrd (legit forgot how cheap it is) because we wanted 4, uh, carrds. It's nice to have a landing page where we can link all of our writing and stuff and links to ALL of our accounts (linkedin github etc)

We were talking to a friend the other day who works for a company that does games over voice assistants (e.g. Siri), and that has lots of computing and shit going on. And that costs them, like, 1 c/user. That's absolutely nothing! And that has actual communication back and forth with a server!

Here is an article from Jan this year that says that carrd was pulling in $30K/mo in 2020 and is now making $1M+/yr and has raised $2M in funding. And also they have 4 million silly little sites: https://saasclub.io/podcast/carrd-aj-306/ There is absolutely no way it is costing them $1M/yr to keep the lights on lol. And they probably only employ, like, 5 people, I imagine. So it's probably nbd that there's lots of kids with accounts that get 0 hits/mo on avg who aren't paying for anything.

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