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one more I liked here: early GitHub free for public / oss projects, pay for private - most personal projs and oss are covered: like slack, that supports succe
by lmeyerov 6y ago
one more I liked here: early GitHub
free for public / oss projects, pay for private
- most personal projs and oss are covered: like slack, that supports successful viral collab!
- but as soon as you are doing commercial work and want that privacy (eg, you are being paid to do it), ok to charge a bit
they eventually got big enough that they could wait even longer to charge. squeezing a few $/mo from tiny accounts doesn't matter if that causes churn before bigger adoption. for a co that straddles both smb + enterprise (1% of customers are 50% of revenue?), that is a suggestive trend for prosumer freemium
another good article here is Greylock's Unit of Value essay