Per-User Revenue Calculations

Comments focus on debating average revenue per user (ARPU), subscription pricing strategies, and the financial sustainability of apps and services based on user counts, costs, and conversion rates.

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Sample Comments

chrisweekly • Oct 15, 2018 • View on HN

Unclear whether you're joking. OP is charging $5/mo to those 5000 users.

kirykl • Oct 31, 2017 • View on HN

What would be your conversion (for the 100k users) at $1 a month ?

ten7 • Jun 29, 2010 • View on HN

Who do you know does $3 per user with $1M per month?

goatlover • Sep 13, 2016 • View on HN

$1 for a billion+ users? Long as it costs them less, should add up to nice sum per month.

LeifCarrotson • Mar 27, 2025 • View on HN

$3/month is a lot of money, when their current revenue per user is approximately $0/month.

dsschnau • May 10, 2018 • View on HN

They make like $6 per user per year

ivalm • Jul 12, 2020 • View on HN

18k/year with 6 mil users is... 0.003 euro per user per year? Certainly even running ads would meaningfully improve this.

leowoo91 • Apr 26, 2019 • View on HN

How is that possible since even instagram spent around 10k per month for few million users? Am I missing something?

terminalshort • Nov 7, 2025 • View on HN

They charge around $15 per month IIRC. It's more like 3x revenue per user.

7952 • Aug 12, 2025 • View on HN

I think they are offering $10 per user given that 3.45 billion is a widely reported user estimate.