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Hi jv2222, two questions if you don't mind me asking

a) Did you start selling paid accounts from day 1. Or was there a paid beta period? How many of your paid beta users converted?

b) For payments I see you use PayPal. Can you point to some resources to get the subscription based system with PayPal up and running?



1st Line of code August 10th 1st Signup September 13th (34 days to go beta) 1st Sale October 17th (68 days to first sale - 1 month beta) 1st $1000 November 17th (98 days to $1000)

About 500 beta testers signed up. Very few converted because I gave them all a free pass for one year.

Here's the paypal links I used to get things up and running...

https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/html.html https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/Appx-ipn_su... https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...




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