> I’m considering the 10 a month but then I think I get 500gb e2ee cloud+email+email hosting+vpn+a couple of other small things from proton for $8.33 a month.
Just because Proton is a great deal doesn't make Kagi a worse deal. This kind of logic never made sense to me. The products have nothing in common, so why the comparison?
Then, also think about why you're worrying about spending $10 per month on a product that you think is great? Is that an amount of money that has any impact on your current life situation? I think a lot of people can't break the habit that everything on a computer has to be free.
You make good points and I appreciate the frame work. Obviously I am not adversed to paying for things that most consider “free”. The issue ultimately is I’m wary of subscription creep. I keep a very small list of things and 10/month times X amount adds up and without my active spending reviews could ballon quickly.
For me, 5-8 a month I think about less than 9.99+. Probably psychological and financial. Obviously will be different for everyone and isn’t purely rational thinking.
Absolutely. $120/year, to me, is cheap to have a search engine that actually, fundamentally works. That it keeps me out of the Google ecosystem a bit more is a massive added bonus. I pay similar to stay out of gmail and the rest of the G suite.
I get that some people have a different financial situation and I respect that, but the cost seems deeply negligible for the benefits of a tool I use tens to hundreds of times a day.
a solid search engine saves me far more then 120 a year in my time. Even just for work stuff if it saves me an hour or two over the entire course of a year it was worth it
Just because Proton is a great deal doesn't make Kagi a worse deal. This kind of logic never made sense to me. The products have nothing in common, so why the comparison?
Then, also think about why you're worrying about spending $10 per month on a product that you think is great? Is that an amount of money that has any impact on your current life situation? I think a lot of people can't break the habit that everything on a computer has to be free.