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Rutger's avatar

Just wanted to share my thoughts regarding the pricing for people using multiple accounts. I think in essence your goal is to have pricing correspond with the number of users, and for businesses this maps quite well to using accounts. For individuals that privately manage multiple accounts this assumption does not hold up. How else to distinguish users from each other? I can quickly think of two options:

1. Unrestricted single-user licenses: An individual pays for their license and wherever they setup the plugin with their Simplify account, the service will work. Perhaps to prevent license sharing between people, have payment information linked to the Simplify account.

2. Pay per device: A person might have 10 Gmail accounts, but probably not more than 2 or 3 computers on which they use it. For people in this situation this model might be more fair.

I don't think a one-size-fits-all approach is what you should be aiming for. I recently had to look into remote desktop solutions, and most of them have multiple plans to cover the many types of customers they have. You could do too!

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Michael Leggett's avatar

I have an idea brewing based on some of the comments I've gotten that might be a better path forward.

Instead of based on the number of Gmail accounts, I could allow plans based on Chrome profiles (under which you can be signed into many Gmail accounts). I think this better maps to the intended 1 subscription = 1 person while also allowing 1 subscription to cover many people.

Some drawbacks:

• This would require Simplify to ask for more permissions (chrome.identity) in the extension (something I try to avoid as much as possible).

• This would only work in Chrome.

• It would require you were signed into Chrome.

• It wouldn't solve the issue if you have N Chrome profiles for N Gmail accounts.

Questions:

• Do you use Chrome?

• Are you signed into Chrome?

• Do you have more than 1-2 Chrome profiles?

• Would this work for you?

• Do you see any other issues with this approach?

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Rutger's avatar

Let me start by answering your questions:

* I use both, but for different tasks. Work stuff happens in Chrome, private stuff in Firefox.

* I am signed into Chrome, but only for work

* I have only one Chrome profile, my work profile. If Simplify would be Chrome only I could switch to Chrome and add a private profile on there. To be honest I am not sure if I would want an extension to determine which browser I use.

* I think the main issue is that using Chrome profiles locks you into a single browser and it's still not very flexible, due to the limit of chrome profiles.

I think it would be best if you would use your own account system instead. I'm curious what your thoughts are on that.

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Arthur Clune's avatar

I use one profile per account to keep work + private (and different works) separate. A profile includes history sync etc, and I don't want my personal history confused with my work one

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Michael Leggett's avatar

Thanks for the responses -- I've decided this path isn't viable as it would only work on Chrome and only if you are signed in.

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