Originally Posted by
johnny99
One thing I really like about CueSheet is the one time fee to use it. I'm all for software developers making a living, but monthly fees are really overkill for casual users. I use your website a couple of times a month at most and really can't afford to pay a monthly fee for that level of service. Is there any way you can give users a small number of routes per month for free? I don't mind seeing ads when I visit your web site and am willing to buy an ad-free smartphone app.
Unfortunately, without charging what we are charging we wouldn't have a business and an app to provide. Our competitors are all very well funded by venture capital investments, Strava to the tune of $18 million, MMR $15 or so million, both with the ambitions to sell for a very large chunk of money after getting as large of an audience as possible. Tacking on ads doesn't drive any meaningful revenue, certainly not enough to support developers. At least without doing really shady things like making the ads very easy to accidentally click and the like.
This is the reason we have a very full featured site with no upload limits for free users. It's great for 90% of people out there, and we pretty much support ourselves by the 10% that want to get the extras.