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rememberthemilk.com kind of goes halfway, with a freemium model. In some ways, that seems more sane to me than DHH's pay-only ideology.
by dcurtis 19y ago
rememberthemilk.com kind of goes halfway, with a freemium model.
In some ways, that seems more sane to me than DHH's pay-only ideology.
- terpua 19y ago37signals' products are all freemium-based.
- RyanGWU82 19y agoI'm a paid subscriber of Remember the Milk, but I don't think they do a good job differentiating their paid product from the free product. I subscribed because I felt that $24.95 was a fair price for a superior mobile interface, but there aren't many other benefits for paid customers. 37signals does this differently. Their free products are far more limited, and their paid products offer quite a few more features than their free products. This limits the value to the freeloading customer, but I think this makes for a more sustainable business in the long-run.
- run4yourlives 19y ago>In some ways, that seems more sane to me than DHH's pay-only ideology. Well, first off, there are free versions of all 37s's apps. Second, RTM isn't profitable (yet/ever?). 37S is. That seems more sane to me.
- markbao 19y agoThat's probably because RTM builds their Paid plan from their Free plan, only offering marginal changes in features. 37signals focuses on the price and builds from there, offering a free version on the side.
- run4yourlives 19y agoI'd agree with that concept, yes. 37s's "free" is just enough to have users say: "Well it doesn't suck, and I could really use that X feature".