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I can't speak for anyone else, but the offer of a free trial made me bounce right off, despite my curiosity and the value such a product could potentially offer

I can't speak for anyone else, but the offer of a free trial made me bounce right off, despite my curiosity and the value such a product could potentially offer me. I want to know up front whether this is going to be useful to me before I sign up for anything. To that end, offering even a single no-strings-attached identification, even if the details are redacted, would go a long way towards conversion.

itake 2y ago
I get it but if you’re a solo founder without VC backing, completely free accounts are really difficult to support. Free users can create a lot of support tickets. This could be good or bad. Free users may never convert to paying, which isn’t ideal for bootstrapped ML business with expensive cloud costs.
- Brajeshwar 2y ago
  Try Community Support (Forum/Discord/Slack, etc) for the free tier. Support Tickets/Email for Premium.
  - itake 2y ago
    Creating features and fixing bugs based on Support feedback (Community Support or otherwise) may result in an amazing experience for the free tier, but not-as-good-as-it could be for your paid subscribers.
- adamaskun 2y ago
  Wow, this really opened my eyes! I hadn’t thought about it from that perspective. hank you so much for helping me see that! I will completely remove subscription, change pricing model to credits, pay as you go.
  - xiaoyu2006 2y ago
    I think it's better to continue give some free credits for new sign-ups.
    - adamaskun 2y ago
      I have to redo logic for credits system, so might take a time, how many credits you suggest would be helpful to test is properly?
Jun8 2y ago
Additionally, this would be a great way to gather tons of plant data that you can then use to increase recognition accuracy.
- mr-pink 2y ago
  that's not free
zulban 2y ago
Some startup business models and development processes don't work well if they collect massive amounts of free ephemeral users instead of a dedicated base when starting out.
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itake 2y ago

I get it but if you’re a solo founder without VC backing, completely free accounts are really difficult to support. Free users can create a lot of support tickets. This could be good or bad. Free users may never convert to paying, which isn’t ideal for bootstrapped ML business with expensive cloud costs.

Brajeshwar 2y ago
Try Community Support (Forum/Discord/Slack, etc) for the free tier. Support Tickets/Email for Premium.
- itake 2y ago
  Creating features and fixing bugs based on Support feedback (Community Support or otherwise) may result in an amazing experience for the free tier, but not-as-good-as-it could be for your paid subscribers.
adamaskun 2y ago
Wow, this really opened my eyes! I hadn’t thought about it from that perspective. hank you so much for helping me see that! I will completely remove subscription, change pricing model to credits, pay as you go.
- xiaoyu2006 2y ago
  I think it's better to continue give some free credits for new sign-ups.
  - adamaskun 2y ago
    I have to redo logic for credits system, so might take a time, how many credits you suggest would be helpful to test is properly?

Jun8 2y ago

Additionally, this would be a great way to gather tons of plant data that you can then use to increase recognition accuracy.

mr-pink 2y ago
that's not free

zulban 2y ago

Some startup business models and development processes don't work well if they collect massive amounts of free ephemeral users instead of a dedicated base when starting out.

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