Humble Suggestion

  • Resolved lawyer101

    (@lawyer101)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    First, great plugin.

    Next, I know it is free, but from the quality and extent of services provided, we know this cannot remain free forever. Yes, that’s a compliment.

    I do not mind paying when the service is well worth it and from what I’ve experienced so far, I would gladly pay $50-$60/month for your search services on my website (with 25K+ records and growing).

    So, please, do let us know about your payment options so that we can keep this service profitable and fruitful for all! Last thing I want to happen is for this service to take the path of Swiftype, where the original plan I signed up for was $19/month, but within a year, increased to $250+/month.

    So, please let us know what you have in mind for the future.

    Thanks!

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/searchiq/

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  • Plugin Author SearchIQ

    (@searchiq)

    I am happy that you like our plugin and even consider paying us monthly fee on it. Yes. You have touched a question that many of our users asking. As the time goes on, how we can continue to remain free as we do have cost in our end to power the cloud infrastructure in order to deliver the experience that you are receiving. I want to see if I can address this here and welcome for any feedbacks.

    SearchIQ is founded because we see many of publishers are being abandoned by Swiftype for the latest pricing model change. In fact, we were one of them so we built out our infrastructure to power our own media network. Then we see people need help like us. To take care of them, we took a step further to open it up thru wordpress plugin. So, we had 0 intention to follow what Swiftype did to you all. Given I said that, we may still potentially come to the point we need to monetize in order to continue our service. We believe we have figured out a way to do that thru content recommendation across our publisher network and that can potentially help you to get traffics to your site as well. The detail of it will be released over the email when we have formed the critical mass in our end. But the bottom line is we are striving to keep this free thru better tech and business model.

    I hope this post has cleared up the cloud a bit.

    thanks
    ray

    Thread Starter lawyer101

    (@lawyer101)

    Excellent! I am glad that you guys understand the experience users like me had with Swiftype. Again, great plugin and I will continue to be willing and ready to pay reasonable monthly fee for your great product and service!

    Thanks for the response.

    Plugin Author SearchIQ

    (@searchiq)

    Thanks for your support. If you come across anything you think we can do better, feel free to send a message to my email: [email protected]

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