Are subscriptions actually a bad model long-term? Lately I’ve been noticing how many things I’m subscribed to… and how few I actually use consistently. Like I’ll pay for something monthly, use it heavily for a couple days, then forget about it for 2–3 weeks. But I’m still paying the full price regardless. It made me wonder whether subscriptions are actually a good model, or just the easiest one companies settled on. I recently came across an idea where instead of paying monthly, you just pay a tiny amount every time you actually use something (kind of like per API call, but applied more broadly). At first that sounds way more fair. But then I started thinking: Would that make costs unpredictable? Would I start hesitating to use things if every action had a price? Or would it actually save money because you stop overpaying? Also from the company side, subscriptions seem safer since revenue is predictable. So now I’m kind of torn: Subscriptions feel inefficient, but also weirdly comfortable.…