Kagi search is currently serving ~2,600 paid customers. We have seen steady growth since the launch 3 months ago. Note, this is with zero marketing and fully relying on word of mouth. We prefer to keep things this way for now, as we are still developing the product towards our vision of a user-centric web search experience.
後面在講財務狀況也是類似的數字 (幾乎都是 Kagi 的付費收入)：
Between Kagi and Orion, we are currently generating around $26,500 USD in monthly recurring revenue, which incidentally about exactly covers our current API and infrastructure costs.
Between Kagi and Orion, we are currently generating around $26,500 USD in monthly recurring revenue, which incidentally about exactly covers our current API and infrastructure costs.
That means that salaries and all other operating costs (order of magnitude of $100K USD/month) remain a challenge and are still paid out of the founders’ pocket (Kagi remains completely bootstrapped).
然後要大概是目前十倍的付費數量才會打平 (25K 個使用者)：
We are planning to reach sustainability at around 25,000 users mark, by further improving the product, introducing new offerings and pricing changes. With the product metrics being as good as they are, we should be able to reach this as our visibility increases.
比較好一點的消息是 churn rate 很低：
Product stickiness is also very high, with churn being lower than 3%.
We are currently serving around 70,000 queries a day or around ~27 queries/day/user (this includes free users which are about 10% of total users). There is a lot of variance in use though, with some users regularly searching >100 times a day. Every time we see a search count go >400 times in day we are happy to be an important part of someone’s search experience.
我看了一下自己的用量，看起來偏高一些，但沒到他說的每天平均 100 次：
然後提到了推出新方案的計畫，包括 Teams Plan & Family Plan，而目前在跑的方案會被分類到 Individual Plans。
Kagi Unlimited - $19/mo or $180/year ($15/mo) or $288/biennial ($12/mo) - Original Kagi experience, with unlimited searches
Kagi Starter ($5/mo; 200 searches) - For casual users who make less than 200 searches per month
Free basic - 50 free searches that reset every month
漲不少，雖然有提到在漲價前既有的付費使用者將會維持原價：
If such change to Individual plans is to occur, we plan to grandfather-in all early adopters (meaning all current and future paid customers, up until this change) allowing them to keep their existing subscription price as long as they don’t cancel it.
Customers new to AWS in the past 12 months and who were in regions where db.t2.micro was not available can now create free tier db.t3.micro or db.t4g.micro instances for the remainder of their first 12 months.
一般性的 data transfer 從 1GB/month/region 變成 100GB/mo，現在是 21 regions 所以不會有反例，另外大多數的人或是團隊也就固定用一兩個 region，這個 free tier 大概可以省個 $10 到 $20 左右？
Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the Internet is now free for up to 100 GB of data per month (up from 1 GB per region). This includes Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, and so forth. The expansion does not apply to the AWS GovCloud or AWS China Regions.
Data Transfer from Amazon CloudFront is now free for up to 1 TB of data per month (up from 50 GB), and is no longer limited to the first 12 months after signup. We are also raising the number of free HTTP and HTTPS requests from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000, and removing the 12 month limit on the 2,000,000 free CloudFront Function invocations per month. The expansion does not apply to data transfer from CloudFront PoPs in China.
今年十二月才生效，要注意一下不要現在就用爽爽：
This change is effective December 1, 2021 and takes effect with no effort on your part.
這樣好像可以考慮把 blog 與 wiki 都放上去玩玩看，目前這兩個服務都是用 Cloudflare 的 free tier，HiNet 用戶基本上都是連去 Cloudflare 的美西 PoP，偶而離峰時間會用亞洲的點，但都不會是台灣的 PoP...
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不過這個優惠連結發現點下去是爛的：
話說回來，這種東西我自己還是偏好用 open source 方案，然後自己搭同步機制，不過目前看到的方案在跨桌機平台與行動平台的確是痛點... 有需求的人應該還是會選 LastPass 或是 1Password 這樣的方案。
看了一下 Hacker News 上的討論，不少人是可以理解不會有永遠免費的午餐，只是這次 Travis CI 的處理讓大家覺得比較討厭的是，一方面官方一直跟 open source community 說我們很願意支援 open source community (前幾個禮拜官方 blog 還有發文重申這件事情)，另外一方面是一直在朝著關閉服務走：從限制 10K credits 開始，到現在不會再提供 credit 給 open source 專案。
有人整理了對應的時間軸：
? 2018: Travis CI announces they are starting the process of merging travis-ci.org, which provided free builds for OSS projects, into travis-ci.com, which until then was only for paying customers. They promise OSS builds will continue to be free.
? 2020: Travis CI announces they are shutting down travis-ci.org at the end of the year and all projects have to move to travis-ci.com. They promise OSS builds will continue to be free.
Early November 2020: travis-ci.com switches from providing unlimited builds for OSS to only providing 10k one-time credits by default. Projects that meet certain guidelines (e.g. no one paid to work on them) can apply for recurring credits.
Later in November 2020: CI for many OSS projects that had migrated to travis-ci.com starts to fail, as they've exhausted their 10K credits.
Dec 2020: If what is reported here is accurate, Travis CI stop providing any recurring OSS credits. CI breaks for the remaining OSS projects on travis-ci.com.
Jan 2021: travis-ci.org shuts down. CI will be broken for all projects using it. They'll have the option of migrating to travis-ci.com, but will soon break again as they exhaust their 10k credits.
這種服務非常吃 CPU resource，大型專案如果每個 push 或是每個 pull request 都跑一輪完整的測試，成本應該不低，大概可以理解為什麼 Travis CI 會這樣決定，不過態度就...
其他家有提供 free tier 的 CI 最近應該會湧入不少人，這幾個月可以看看其他家會不會也跟進，另外一方面應該也會有人開始自架？
