Originally Posted by
Metallifan33
I was just reading their email and was surprised to find out that they as a company have yet to make money.
b2c web businesses are difficult. You need to hope network effects kick in because low (or no with advertising businesses) revenue from each individual precludes significant customer acquisition costs. Getting to that point can take a decade and a hundred million dollars. When you bet wrong your options are much more limited than with a B2B company where sufficient revenue to cover customer acquisition costs comes early.
Anyway, I was wondering how many of you pay for their subscription and why... also if any of you plan to pay for it now at $5 a month.
The heatmap is the only strava feature I care about. It suggests roads popular among cyclists that I might want to take on a long ride.
I upload rides I think strava followers would like, but otherwise would stop with a local upload for training (Golden Cheetah) and ridewithgps for sharing (it allows attached pictures and has better map options).
ridewithgps is worth $10/month to me for the ride planning features (selectable maps like OSM with water sources, trace rides to import as routes, generate custom cue sheets) but Strava doesn't deliver enough value for me to pay money.