What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
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@fred8615 That strikes me as proprietary information that the parties would be unlikely to discuss.
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@Ayespy Fair enough.
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I feel like you should accept donations also, because there are people who would like to donate these kind of services. For example, I don't mind to donate $5 for Vivaldi Browser.
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@cejno said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
I feel like you should accept donations also, because there are people who would like to donate these kind of services. For example, I don't mind to donate $5 for Vivaldi Browser.
We are looking into ways for people to support us. Feels good to hear that you would be willing to chip in. Donations is an obvious way. What kind of donation system would you prefer? PayPal button and /or maybe Patreon?
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@christian , what about Dash? (Open Source)
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@christian said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
PayPal button and /or maybe Patreon?
Yes please
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@christian said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
What kind of donation system would you prefer? PayPal button and /or maybe Patreon?
I already use patreon for other things so that would probably be easiest.
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@LonM said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
@christian said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
What kind of donation system would you prefer? PayPal button and /or maybe Patreon?
I already use patreon for other things so that would probably be easiest.
Good to know. If others would like to chime in here, I'm game
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@LonM said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
I already use patreon for other things so that would probably be easiest.
Some thoughts worth considering:
More people have PayPal than Patreon (that's a guess, but it's probably true). Also, Patreon requires recurring payments whereas PayPal has both recurring and one-off payments. It's probably best to offer both options (whether that be Patreon + Paypal, or just PayPal).Another option is buymeacoffee.com, where I believe both one-offs and recurring payments are possible.
Patreon, of course, has the added advantage of the possibility of showing stats about number of patrons, monthly earnings from them, etc.
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@Komposten said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
More people have PayPal than Patreon (that's a guess, but it's probably true)
To add to this: If you did go down the paypal route don't require people to make a paypal account.
I know in the past you used to be able to "skip" the paypal account creation step, but maybe that's changed.
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@LonM said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
I know in the past you used to be able to "skip" the paypal account creation step, but maybe that's changed.
You still can. However, it's usually a very inconspicuous link below every thing else on the PayPal page, with the text "Pay with credit card" or something like that. In my experience most people don't even see that link since it's basically hidden.
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@Komposten said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
a very inconspicuous link below every thing else on the PayPal page, with the text "Pay with credit card" or something like that. In my experience most people don't even see that link since it's basically hidden.
Well Vivaldi being the guys and gals they are would have no problem explaining all that in any Vivaldi page linking to the Paypal page...
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@mossman said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
Well Vivaldi being the guys and gals they are would have no problem explaining all that in any Vivaldi page linking to the Paypal page...
Probably.
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@Komposten said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
@LonM said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
I already use patreon for other things so that would probably be easiest.
It's probably best to offer both options (whether that be Patreon + Paypal, or just PayPal).
I agree with you.
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Hi, thank you for Vivaldi Browser and its services.
I noted how your business model works. Thank you for this transparence. I have to tell you I use the Lilo search engine, a solidary-based search engine which distribute the revenues from my searches to social projects. If needed, I will not miss to use your search engine partners. Thank you again. -
I switched to Vivaldi after the latest release with Ads Blocking. So far so great And this article is very nice and useful.
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Interesting article, thank you Christian.
I wonder however how the financial situation of Vivaldi looks at the moment. Is it already a profitable company or if not, then not by what margin? Do you disclose any information about this?
I find the path of using bookmark and searches partners a good way to earn revenue...but somehow I would be surprised if that actually covers the ongoing cost of investment that goes into a browser and company of your size.
Would be nice to have some feedback on it
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@verbovet seconding this, I only ever shop 'zon using the "smile.amazon.com" address
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What can I say? I have always loved you and always will.
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That's why we use and love Vivaldi.
I think Vivaldi should accept donations or introduce a monthly subscription model (paid membership doesn't necessarily have extra features). These will help the team to develop more powerful Vivaldi products much easier.