i'm not being negative here Dan, just a bit real, i think there will not have enough "demand" to cover the expanses, i see nowadays people wants everything by free, if they want free they have the streaming radio already and it's not easy to run it.
I think you remember our conversation in Vienna, the most important is you first try to get a sponsor like google or coca-cola, like America on line sponsors ETN radio![]()
i'm not being negative here Dan, just a bit real, i think there will not have enough "demand" to cover the expanses, i see nowadays people wants everything by free, if they want free they have the streaming radio already and it's not easy to run it.
I think you remember our conversation in Vienna, the most important is you first try to get a sponsor like google or coca-cola, like America on line sponsors ETN radio![]()
its all about marketing... need to make donating desirable... creating it as a nice picture :smile:
for example would u donate $30 if u would get ah AH T-shirt and some AH Dj exclusive compilation cd in return?i would
I read some of the posts in the thread but not all of it...
I might be willing to pay a reasonable fee (instead of donating once a while) if I will have the chance to listen to the whatever set I want whenever. Because you can't always have time to listen to the live sets or catch the replays.
I will also have to agree with picolli though. I don't think there will be enough demand to cover the expenses. some of the djs already provide the DL link for their sets, and it is not really hard to find any other set online anyways (even though it is not really legal).
And as ToT said, with some marketing, you can get more donations/subscribtions for sure.. Prize draws, or free give aways...
You can compare the number of people who currently donate to the number of people who might probably subscribe for an on demand service..
What is the % of AH supporters right now for example?
Why don't you limit supporter status to one year after a donation?
Why don't you limit supporter status to one year after a donation?
possible![]()
Hello thanks for feedback, there is a difference on having supporters that support AH once and get a supporter status in forum and someone who is a supporter and does it each month "subscription based" costs to run AH or this on demand system are monthly based.
To be honest as a few of you already stated I see no point in openning up this service cause its not cost effective & i don't need anymore ahfm debt
hugs mate
Hello everyone,
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So I would like to get some feedback from you guys on this, I created a poll. If you guys would be interested in this kind of feature and willing to subscribe with a monthly fee & what would be a reasonable fee a month. Reason why I would like to see feedback is I don't want to get a loan and get this whole thing running and have no one to be using it. So thank you for reading this long post, and I appreciate all the feedback.
Mhhhmm
So is there a short overview what all the cost are for on demand system ?? Mean what costs the HDD, the server, the service, etc...
so maybe some like to spend money for the setup itself...f.e. one person will spend the HDD
cheers
Hi Dan
You're considering monthly costs and hence mention monthly incomes - by a monthly fee. Once an investment is made, the costs have to be equalled by incomes within some period of time. For me, time is lacking. Time for listening : streaming audio < 'live', replay or 'on-demand' > as well as for re-hearing off-line downloaded stuff. When you're introducing an 'On Demand' feature, I cóuld and probably will make some use of the opportunity. By exception. But not on a regular basis. Not 'large scale'. Because of the height of any fee ? No. These days simply because I don't have the time. I don't have the time to listen more as I already do now. If I was you, I would be considering the costs - and be very careful before entering yet another financial obligation
server: 350 euro
disks: 85 euro each 500GB each in raid
to get the application built: 250 euro
monthly cost for servers colocation + bandwidth: 200 euro
So basically 800euro to just start... Like others said its not worth it.
Thank you danmark, I gave alot of though and I dont need another financial obligation.
This thread will be locked after the weekend, there is no point in pushing this forward when most people want something that costs money FREE.
Thank you all for your feedback it was very nice and interesting to see all opinions.
DAN!!!
I wouldnt close so fast...its just a few days and its just the meanings of a few hardcore members on ah....
i would do the following...make a nice Newsletter out of it...ask via that newsletter about and talk about the service itself...try to make an cost overview for the single user and what he gets for it...
if THAT didnt work and ppl are not interested THEN you can say RIP On Demand
just a thought how it could work![]()
DAN!!!
I wouldnt close so fast...its just a few days and its just the meanings of a few hardcore members on ah....
but aren't the "hardcore members" that we count on?
while the Newsletter idea is good, i know that some opt out of receiving it, plus lest say there's 20, 30 even 50 ppl that would say "yes, i will subscribe"..who's to say that they actually will do so when the system is up and running?
IMO more important is the feedback from those "hardcore members", they are here every day, and most are supporters already, i don't see how the opinion of those that never visit the forum can be of any influence or be relied upon
but aren't the "hardcore members" that we count on?
while the Newsletter idea is good, i know that some opt out of receiving it, plus lest say there's 20, 30 even 50 ppl that would say "yes, i will subscribe"..who's to say that they actually will do so when the system is up and running?
IMO more important is the feedback from those "hardcore members", they are here every day, and most are supporters already, i don't see how the opinion of those that never visit the forum can be of any influence or be relied upon