Daniel Piret

This resonates a lot. "Most health apps were built for a 28-year-old" spot on, and it goes way beyond fitness. I'm building Olkano, a daily check-in for people living alone (many of them elderly). Same realization: the generic solutions just don't work for specific demographics. They're either overengineered or too broad to actually help. I think apps like yours that go deep on a specific group...

I agree with both the post and @nayan_surya's point, but I think the real trap is somewhere in between. "Ship fast" is absolutely right when it means build the smallest thing that lets you validate whether anyone cares. The problem is that the enemy of an MVP is the founder's obsession with delivering perfection. I know because I've been that founder. I spent years building ITM Platform, a...

I think about free vs. paid as an optimization function. Your free tier exists to attract the volume of users you need to hit your paid conversion targets. The parameters are simple: the higher the value your paid tier delivers, the fewer free users you need in the funnel. So the real question isn't "what do I give away?" It's "how valuable is my paid tier, and how many free users do I need to...