> I’m under the early adopter pricing but I fear that the higher price (and cognitive effort in lower prices to keep track of how many searches I’ve made) might make adoption a bit harder.
I pay for Kagi, I had a few minutes of minor outrage when I saw the pricing changes, which in retrospect was childish (for me, others motivations may differ). Iirc, the pricing actually won't change for me given the number of queries I do, and regardless I'll probably just get the highest tier anyway and be done with it. There are always ad supported options for people who want to save money. Personally I prefer to pay what it costs (meaning pay so that kagi can run a viable business) because I know how advertising perverts a business. I hope they can succeed by appealing to people who think this way.
Also re the GP mention of caching, I'm sure I read in a discussion that kagi had tried that and it didn't change the economics.
For me, ~50% of searches are just lazy ways to get to a website I know, like I literally search for hacker news regularly. I'm curious if there's some kind of triage possible, where the lazy site lookups get a simple search that's cost efficient and then fail over to a costly search if they don't find anything. If there isn't something like this ready. Modern search is really just a "portal" with fuzzy matching for most queries, as opposed to genuine "show me a site I don't already know about" and I've never seen that reflected in any discussion about search.
I pay for Kagi, I had a few minutes of minor outrage when I saw the pricing changes, which in retrospect was childish (for me, others motivations may differ). Iirc, the pricing actually won't change for me given the number of queries I do, and regardless I'll probably just get the highest tier anyway and be done with it. There are always ad supported options for people who want to save money. Personally I prefer to pay what it costs (meaning pay so that kagi can run a viable business) because I know how advertising perverts a business. I hope they can succeed by appealing to people who think this way.