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I feel like free plans work best for products with a business/enterprise side: - where free users are an onramp for getting $x,xxx/mo-$xx,xxx/mo contracts with

by tekacs 6y ago

I feel like free plans work best for products with a business/enterprise side: - where free users are an onramp for getting $x,xxx/mo-$xx,xxx/mo contracts with companies. - where many, many free users are subsidized every time a company signs up. Trello/Jira/Asana seem to fall pretty firmly into that territory. On the other hand, those running SaaS with fairly low per-month subscription value (e.g. $99-150/mo, as a lot of smaller or bootstrapped SaaSes seem to charge [1]) wouldn't necessarily get much value from these users. [1]: https://plausible.io/#pricing https://plausible.io/#pricing (just picked these folks at random)

bryanrasmussen 6y ago
Trello is a service I would probably pay for (before purchase by Atlassian, now don't trust) but never have because the free tier covers my needs adequately. For me free plans work best for products that other products can be built on top of, because if I think I am going to build a product I want to have enough of a free tier that I can build the service and when I start having to pay for it I will have enough progress to know that it is worth investing money as well as time in it. Basically when I start paying for a service like that I want to have my product in release and at least a customer or two. Of course I have only ever achieved this once.