Comment by renonce

Here is my shiny new super business plan for a startup that will profit thousands from a supposedly non-paying customer:

1. Offer “free static website” with lots of templates and guides to help you build one

2. The first 100GB is free and beyond that it’s $0.01/MB. But no worries! Very few customers actually use up that free bandwidth and in case you need more you can purchase packages for $100/TB. Also we offer a free service that will help you get your site more visible by advertising it, it’s included by default.

3. After a month or so, randomly help a customer bump the website and make it popular by putting it in some list that is frequently crawled. Secretly hire someone else to crawl these websites and make lots of download requests

4. Once the customer suddenly gets 10TB of traffic, bill them for 9900GB which is $99000

5. As long as 1 out of 100 customers pay, you are profiting $990 per customer! For the rest of customers, offer a 5% discount so they only have to pay $1980. Threat taking them to collections if they refuse.

Become the next millionare by just selling free static websites to 1000 customers! Anyone join us?