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Comment by mildweed | Hacker News Reader

If I were to pay money for my HN, I'd want at least some of it to go to the actual HN team.

I find it funny that a community of people who make their living off selling software are so averse to paying for it. How much of your hourly rate is the cost of buying this? How much time do you spend on HN daily? How much percent better does reading HN does this app need to make, for you to be ROI positive in a week?

It's not the problem of spending $2, it's the question of if that $2 is going to the right people.

One might think that the developer of the application is the right person to pay for the application.

Why is $2 going to some ppl who made something which provides you with value >2 everyday,(or some random value), the wrong people?

Extend the analogy only a little, "I dont buy anything on the internet as I want some of it to go to Tim Barnes Lee."

Indeed. This is the crux of our news organizations' current crisis. They create and organize the content, yet everybody else is using the content for profit. I choose to reward those who create and organize the content.

The delivery of content is extremely easy, especially for me since I'm a developer myself.

When's your Hacker News iPhone app coming out then?

Yeah, £1.19 seems a bit too steep when I can instantly fire up Safari on my iPhone and view the full hn for free.

How many sips of beer is that? 1.5?

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