Sharing a PPE success story 🎉
Quick background: my actor had around 90 "ghost" users and 80 real users on rental pricing. About 18 days ago I switched it to PPE, and the change kicked in 4 days ago.
Since then I've lost all the revenue from the ghost users, but revenue from the remaining users (plus maybe some new ones) is already almost 3x what I was making on rental. A couple of reasons why:
- My PPE pricing has better margins than the rental price did
- On rental I was paying for a bunch of proxies (not Apify's) out of pocket, so I was actually taking a loss before
The free and paid user counts aren't growing as fast as they do for my other actors that have been on PPE since day one, but I'm hoping that picks up soon.
I also already had a popular PPE version of this actor, and that one is helping me buy a villa in my city. Crazy!! I wouldn't have thought about buying a house right now, but Apify genuinely made it possible.
If you're on the fence about moving from rental to PPE, hopefully this helps 🙌