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You don't really make $2K per month with just 2K customers at $1 per month.

You have credit card fees - 2.9% + $0.30 (fair?) So that's $0.67 or 2985 customers (round up to 3000)

And IF you ever reach a substantial income, you could be in about the 25% tax bracket.

Now you take another .17 off of that, and you're down to $0.50 per customer.

You need 4000 customers per month to earn around $2000 per month at $1 per month per customer.

Now, if even a quarter of those people require even a lick of customer support, you've worked that money away with your time.

So I agree, at $1 per month, you really can't make any money.



Most people who run cheap ($1-3/month) services don't bill monthly. They usually bill in 6 or 12 month increments for exactly this reason.


At $1 per month, support is through a forum, community driven at best.




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