by machineghost » Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:07 pm
As a longtime user (and lover) of Spamgourmet, I would happily pay a few bucks a month for a premium account. I would not expect anything about that account to be different whatsoever ... except I would want a single feature: message preservation.
If I could actually look at (even in an awkward way, with a bad UI) say the last 50 or 100 emails deleted, instead of just the subjects of the last 3, that alone would feel worth the cost. After all, to make it happen you'll have to hold the text of my last 50 or 100 emails, and that takes more storage space. I can't imagine that the text of even 100 emails would cost even $0.05 extra a month ... but it would cost you more, and so as a user I would feel spending a few bucks a month to be completely justified.
Of course, as a lover of the service I should just donate money from time to time out of appreciation, but ... I'm human, and humans aren't big on paying for things they can get for free. A premium account would give us users a good reason to pay, and a feature like the one I described (perhaps along with some other popular "low hanging fruit" requests) wouldn't be *too* hard to make, hopefully.
Of course just having a payment system at all is work, but if you use a processor like Stripe they make it pretty easy, and essentially inside Spamgourmet you just need to connect to a single flag/bit on each user account (premium=true).