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I feel this really should have been titled "Why My Free Plan Didn’t Work." Since free plans have and will continue to work for some people. I don't know about

• shantanubala 16y ago
  The main thing with GitHub that makes it a great example of freemium is that they have two separate audiences for free and paid accounts. The free accounts are for open source projects and random hackers who write code for fun. By doing this, they attract talent and popularity to their service that convinces a different audience (businesses) to pay. GitHub probably still has many more free than paid users, but the upfront cost was probably well worth it in the end.
  • xiongchiamiov 16y ago
    I would guess that there are a decent number of paid users who aren't "businesses", but just people. I myself have a paid account because: 1. I want private repositories for school work and cba to set them up on my own server. 2. I run my website off of github, and only paid accounts get CNAME support. 3. I think they're awesome guys, and I want the service to stay around. This is the most important one.