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| ▲ | georgemcbay an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > I find it kind of surprising she didn't just spend the $20 If it because the poster's mother dislikes the idea of subscriptions, then I totally get it. (Though I admit I have no idea if this has anything to do with the poster's mother's decision.) I'll go out of my way as much as I can to avoid signing up for anything that is a subscription because of how horrible the entire corporate world has abused subscription dark patterns over the past couple of decades. These days just the packaging of anything into a subscription makes me assume there is intent to screw people out of money. While signing up for LLM usage is fairly low risk as far as subscription lock-in goes, someone non-technical might not be aware of that fact. | |
| ▲ | thaumasiotes 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Does updating the website bring in additional money? | | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. Otherwise why update the website at all? | | |
| ▲ | ElProlactin 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > Presumably a nicer website could lead to more customers. It depends what "nicer" means. Paying a web designer/developer to create a bespoke website doesn't guarantee that said website will have a better UI/UX and, most importantly, "convert" at a higher rate. Not every web designer/developer understands IA, content, performance optimization, etc. The popular AI tools produce websites that are clearly AI-produced if you know the patterns, but that doesn't mean they can't be usable and quite effective at converting. And if you have a bit of skill with prompting, AI can be really good at working through performance bottlenecks, etc. | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Changing office address? New qualifications? Better copy? | | |
| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | so. if website does not lead to customers - why do any of that? actually why have website? Once you say yes to website you imply having one is somehow valuable, so in that case why not spend 20 dollars. | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Just because websites can exist. Sometimes things are done for fun, or just for the sake of it. This perspective declares all the personal websites of people worthless, however, they are priceless. Because people's curiosity and creativity is priceless as well. Similarly, why create art and share it around if it doesn't bring in customers? Why make music, take photos, dance? Do we live to serve customers, or do customers' existence serve us to live a better life? Questions, questions... | | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Of course, those are all great reasons to make a website. But this website was for a woman's psychology practice. I don't imagine she made it for fun or to express her creativity. The purpose of a psychology practice's website is to tell people about your psychology practice, so they will either sign up ($) or find information they need more easily (higher satisfaction → $). If OP's mother runs a donation-funded pro-bono psychology practice then you can translate the dollar signs to units of happiness or whatever (which I would imagine is her real goal regardless). This person is spending her time to create the website (with ChatGPT's help). How much is that time worth? Of course when it's your business hourly pay is tricky, but I imagine she values her time highly enough that $20 is not worth very much of it. | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I know an accountant, who has a respectable amount of customers and enough income to live comfortably. Their company has a website which only provides a logo, address and contact information, in a 23 line HTML file, complete with all the white space. If their company can do well with this website, her psychology practice can do as well. Some of the best services I got was from professionals with no or mundane online presence. Instead, their abilities and expertise moved them to the top in their respective fields, and the whole community knows how and when to reach them. So, maybe a shiny website is not a hard-requirement for a good psychology practice, IDK. So, the thing is, maybe this was her way to explore new things and decompress while doing some mundane thing from her perspective for free. Sometimes it's not that $20 which you can pay without any negative side-effects, but the desire to see how far the thing goes without the token, or just because you don't feel any urgency to do the task, so that $20 looks like an unnecessary waste. I have been in both places. | | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, presumably that's why she did not update the website for 20 years! If once she's decided to update the website—surely it's worth more then $20 at that point? Otherwise, she probably shouldn't be spending any time on it herself either, given the opportunity cost. Obviously she decided otherwise, I just find it kind of surprising. Like, in general, I'm always kind of surprised at what people are and aren't willing to pay for. People will suffer through horrible full screen ads in mobile games instead of paying $5 one time to turn them off. And they'll do this on a phone that costs $1,000+. I don't know their financial situation, but I would buy a cheaper phone and get rid of the ads... | | |
| ▲ | bayindirh 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | From what I have seen, people's perspective on value lies on a very wide spectrum. My mom won't buy a YouTube premium subscription, because she said she likes the ads. It's a kind of discovery platform for her. It's not that I share the same perspective, but I respect her about that. I know people who won't subscribe to a service, but go through great pains to get the thing the service offers (another brand, similar yet inferior service, etc.). For example, if an application I use has ads (i.e. a game), and it needs a subscription to remove these ads, I'll simply won't install it, or get the paid version of it from the start. For me, playing a game with no end and paying monthly to "hide" advertisements doesn't worth it. |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > but I imagine she values her time highly enough that $20 is not worth very much Did you notice that this is completely unrelated to the idea that the $20 would turn a profit for the business? It's just the argument "$20 isn't very much money, so why not spend it?". |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Otherwise why update the website at all? Because you have it. |
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| ▲ | King-Aaron 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There is an entire industry built around this premise, yes. |
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