Originally Posted by
flightyryan
If I can pat our own backs for a minute, we do do a really nice job showing past flight's data. Glad you are enjoying. TripIt can bulk import those for you btw. And I'm still looking to pay someone to build OpenFlights import!
Old flight data is VERY hard. I still need a good source for pre-2005 data, anyone?
If you will indulge, see post above you?, and give me advice on how YOU would price lifetime.
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Well, do you have a definition of what lifetime even really means? The life of an app might only be 5 years tops. I don't expect it to mean 50 years (although that would be nice). I'm not a developer, but I feel like I'd want to get as much money as fast I could from someone. There could be lots of new apps that come out in the next year or two. If I'm on a year to year subscription, I'm going to be evaluating very closely any and all alternatives as they come up. It seems like "locking" in someone for 3+years worth of a subscription fee might not be a bad idea.
Are you planning on eventually selling the app or getting bought out? If so, as I mentioned above, I'd be trying to get as much as I can as fast as I can, which is where my incentive would be to push for a longer term option. I don't know if that makes any sense at all or not, but that's what I would do. I think 3 years worth is the break even point for a lot of people/apps on this. Anything over that, I don't have confidence the app will stick around. Anything less then that, there's no incentive to buy that.
I'm just armchairing it over here.