356 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 11 Apr \ on: I'm Vlad, founder of Kagi Search and Orion Browser. AMA. AMA
My experience is most months I get to the limited number of searches near the end of the month and then search on startpage.
Did you consider a lightning integration with pay per search model?
Consider yes, executing on this is hard and we do not want to be in the business of managing different ways of billing, but in the business of search. Mind you our team is very small and just integrating Lightning to begin with took us 4 months and the number of users using it still does not justify the initial investment made. Hopefully as Kagi becomes more popular in these circles we can prioritize this more.
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just integrating Lightning to begin with took us 4 months and the number of users using it still does not justify the initial investment made.
I figured I'ld sign up, but found I already had signed up.
I suspect that occurred at the time of seeing this (which I probably saw, because I read a lot of bitcoin-related posts):
https://blog.kagi.com/accepting-paypal-bitcoin
So while I'm not a paying user (yet), a few marketing touch points have occurred now. I'm going to consider the Pro plan, since there is ChatGPT included.
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