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Maybe just be more rigorous: Provide builds only for people who pay. I've seen such an option many times in former days where you could buy a binary or build t
by ktpsns 7y ago
Maybe just be more rigorous: Provide builds only for people who pay.
I've seen such an option many times in former days where you could buy a binary or build the source code your own. The advantage was then that you didn't have to invest time into building.
Your current plans are more honest, probably too honest. Remove one "free" option so there are only two options left, one free, one paid.
- alien_ 7y agoI tried this for a while but it decreased user adoption a lot so I added it back but with a savings limit of $1000/month. Looks like most people don't seem to want to build it from source and it deters them to use it if I don't provide easy to install binaries. It also also impacted negatively the conversions to paid users, people who convert seem to try the free binaries first and update to the paid version if they need to get above the $1000 monthly savings limit or they want the peace of mind to be on stable builds. I then charge them $29 monthly for the stable and unlocked version that I have also tested. I also experimented with various pricing tiers and decided to settle to this for simplicity.