Good examples of fee-based web biz models you can respect? (besides flickr)

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by ereldon • 19 years ago

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gibsonf1• 19 years ago

37signals.com

Netflix is the first example that springs to mind. They're not purely a web app, but they're the only thing I'm paying for besides 37signals.

I might pay one of these domain-name-brainstorming sites that are popping up, not sure yet. Buxfer.com also looks intriguing, not sure if they charge yet.

lupin_sansei• 19 years ago

O'Reily's Safari book thing.

yaacovtp• 19 years ago

1 - Dating sites with targeted communities such as religious peers.

2 - Premium news sites. You see a lot of these with financial sites such as theflyonthewall.com, briefing.com etc.

3 - Quality tutorial sites. lynda.com

4 - I started paying up for an ad free experience and premium features for email.before gmail took off.

5 - Job listings on craigslist.

6 - Membership sites. Too many to list.

especkman• 19 years ago

Live Journal, Wordpress.com...

bootload2• 19 years ago

'... There is no money coming in on WordPress.com (http://www.wordpress.com) right now. We don't charge users or show advertisements ...'

wordpress.com isn't funded by fees ~ http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/WordPress_Inc_Story

It's all self funded even the hardware. There seems to be lots of confusion about this. Not the least this article ~ http://www.airbagindustries.com/archives/008169.php

Wordpress does pass around the hat for donations but I don't think that would be classed as a good business model.

phil• 19 years ago

That was 2005 though. Wordpress.com now has quite a few paid premium services.

sharpshoot• 19 years ago

eBay, PayPal, YouSendIt, Dropsend, WuFoo, SHaadi.com, Stardoll.com

Good examples of fee-based web biz models you can respect? (besides flickr)

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