What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
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@Zsul What is your Windows locale? I think that the default bookmarks depend on that.
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@Pesala Well, it was on a CentOS with a Hungarian MATE graphical interface, but I do not know which settings really matters here.
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Thank you for providing this info. I appreciate this business model and will do my best to support it by using the bookmarks and revenue-generating search engines.
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I've been meaning to ask this; You said all but Google pay to be included, but do they all pay the same amount, or does one or more pay more to be in Vivaldi? Do they pay every time we search, and do some pay more for that?
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@fred8615 Each contract stands on its own.
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@Ayespy said in What’s Vivaldi’s business model?:
@fred8615 Each contract stands on its own.
Didn't really answer my question. I thought if there was one that paid more, I wouldn't mind using it to help out more.
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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.