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In all honesty, if you don't have a free plan, you will never get my business. There are way too many apps that I love to fully support financially. Especially
by blister 16y ago
In all honesty, if you don't have a free plan, you will never get my business. There are way too many apps that I love to fully support financially.
Especially for a business app. My product <shamelessplug>http://userping.com</shamelessplug> http://userping.com</shamelessplug> is my first bootstrapped company, and while I'd love to be profitable enough to fully support all the great apps I've come to depend on, right now we're broke, so I have to choose between using your app or paying for another month of hosting. Pretty simple decision.
So, my vote is always for a free option. I think you should feel free to really lock it down and restrict the offerings because anyone who can't afford to pay for a service probably doesn't need 200 user accounts. They probably only need one or two, which should theoretically not cost you very much.
That's my $0.02. I very rarely even try services with a 30-day free trial. I'd hate to get hooked on something that is going to rape my tight budget.
- revorad 16y agoif you don't have a free plan, you will never get my business. That made me chuckle. Unless you pay for a product, you are _not_ giving him any business. Don't get me wrong; I can totally see where you are coming from. I'm pretty much in the same situation. However, you and I are clearly not Mark's target customers, so it's a bit unhelpful to ask him for a freebie. How does it help him? To make money, one needs to sell to people who can pay. There are plenty of businesses out there, who will pay money to solve their problems. Broke startups selling free apps to other broke startups is not a business model.
- StavrosK 16y agoYou are very much correct. There are users, and there are customers. Listen to your customers. Users matter too, but "please give me this feature for free, because I might sign up down the line" isn't cutting it...
- dbrannan 16y ago"If you don't have a free plan, you will never get my business." I love your honesty. Clearly you are not the type of customer he is looking for.