I am looking to start a business and the current idea for an MVP is a hosted chat service. So, if you want to include chat rooms on your website, just copy paste a snippet of code and you have a chat room on your website! Like Disqus, but for chat.<p>How does including a chat room on a website help the business or website owner?<p>* Helps build a community around your website/business<p>* All current chat services are for customer support. It's great, but allowing users to interact with each other can be even more valuable. Users can help each other.<p>* The cool factor : If you visit two online stores, one which only has product descriptions and the other additionally has a chat room which lets you interact with other users and support staff, which inspires more trust? The second store.<p>* Another avenue to engage users : engagement == more revenue.
Continuation :<p>I want to charge from the start. Proposed plans :<p>1. Individual plan : $10/month<p>2. Business plan : $200/month<p>I know I'll receive flak for the high price, but $200/month is not expensive for a business and considering the value generated, I think it's fair.<p>Here's what I want to know from you guys :<p>* What do you think about the idea and proposed plan.<p>* If you have a business will you try my service and pay if you feel it adds value? (Free 2 week trial)<p>* Any other suggestions/thoughts?<p>If there is sufficient interest from the community, I will continue writing these posts to share updates.<p>Additional details :<p>* I will use Django (channels)+Postgres for the backend.<p>* For payments, I'll use Paypal to start with and move to Stripe if this shows any signs of becoming a sustainable business.<p>If you are interested, please fill out your email address in this <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/nVTqKTzQuAfbfr5l1" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/forms/nVTqKTzQuAfbfr5l1</a> and given sufficient interest, I will start a mailing list to keep you updated.<p>If I decide to start this project, I will register a domain and start tomorrow.<p>Looking forward to your feedback in the comments. Thanks.