· 4 min read · Vibeboa
The price, from the inside
R$ 7 per month for dozens of apps seems too good to be true — and it is, on purpose. How is the value calculated, why does it go up and why will those who join now never pay more.
Vibeboa charges a single subscription, which gives access to the entire ecosystem. Today it costs R$ 7 per month. This raises the right question: what happens when the collection doubles in size?
The rule, before the promotion
The normal rule is one real per app. It is deliberately simple because it needs to be verifiable: you count the apps online and know how much it would cost. There is no bronze plan, no hidden resource behind a step, no price that changes depending on the device from which you access.
This rule has a ceiling. From a certain size, the value freezes and stops rising, even if the collection continues to grow — because from a certain point what's being sold stops being "how many apps" and becomes "the ecosystem", and charging per unit stops making sense.
Why the promotion exists
Today's price is promotional and is well below the rule. It's not generosity: it's the price of entering early into an ecosystem that's still being built. Whoever subscribes now is accepting an incomplete collection, apps that change face from one week to another, and features that appear without warning.
The locked price
The part that matters: the value freezes on the day you sign up. If you joined for R$ 7, you pay R$ 7 as long as you maintain the subscription, regardless of how much the collection grows afterwards. The price increases for those who have not yet joined, never for those who are already inside.
This is the opposite of the industry standard, which is to enter cheap and adjust the old subscriber because they are the ones with the least desire to leave. Here, the old subscriber is the one who funded the beginning — adjusting them would be charging twice for the same bet.
What the subscription is not
- There's no loyalty period: cancellation is immediate and has no penalty.
- There's no tier of features: there's no version of the app with less stuff inside.
- There's no sale of data. The model is subscription precisely to not need that.
- A large part of the app content is open and remains open without subscription.
The full account, with the number of apps currently online and the value that the rule would give, is on the pricing page — it updates itself as the collection grows, because it is calculated from the same catalog that builds the site.