# Why would Discourse's business model work when Stack Exchange v1's failed? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [11. Februar 2013 um 00:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-discourses-business-model-work-when-stack-exchange-v1s-failed/2678 "2013-02-11T00:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![jeremyaboyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jeremyaboyd/32/103529_2.png) [@jeremyaboyd](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jeremyaboyd)\ **Post date:** [11. Februar 2013 um 19:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-discourses-business-model-work-when-stack-exchange-v1s-failed/2678/19 "2013-02-11T19:40:09Z")
> [@obvio171](#): > > The business model doesn’t seem to be too different between Discourse and SEv1: host your community =\> give me money on a monthly subscription. Another major difference is the price point. IIRC SEv1 cost over $1000/mo for a community to organize a Q&A site, which not many could afford, let alone had the community to need that many questions and answers. So SEv1 cost too much for you to not use it. Where as if this is priced in the $10-99/mo range, you wouldn’t need a very active community to get $50/mo worth of usage out of it. After all, what is $50 - Taco Bell and a movie. With that low of an entry cost, way more communities will be able to be hosted, and since they wont need many resources, they can be hosted shared, costing way less than an install of SEv1. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-would-discourses-business-model-work-when-stack-exchange-v1s-failed/2678)._