🤔 Free or not free? 💰
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What's one feature you're completely torn about pricing. Should it be free to hook users or paid to drive revenue? Builders, let's help each other out! 🚀
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What's one feature you're completely torn about pricing. Should it be free to hook users or paid to drive revenue? Builders, let's help each other out! 🚀
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ZapDigits
Depends on the product. There is no one fixed way to this.
Atlas
@malithmcrdev what are you doing for your product? I see you're launching soon. What's free and what's not? and how did you decide?
ZapDigits
Hey @laura_cruickshanks ,
I wanted to filter out users early. I am currently giving access to all the features for free without credit card and it is available only for one day. From next day on users have to choose a plan. But I am also planing to add an onboarding flow where they can extend the free version for extra days by asking them to do specific tasks. for example in my case: Create a dashboard - get 1 day more, Connect a data source - get 2 days more.
Atlas
@malithmcrdev Oh! Gamifying the onboarding process! We did that at my last job. We added time and MAUs when they completed onboarding steps.
Are your users able to get value in less than a day?
keep free for most of the time and rely on donation from dedicated fans until it really proves the values to much more ppl :)
Great question — we wrestled with this a lot while building Growstack. One feature that had us stuck was automated lead follow-ups. It's super high-impact, but also one of those “aha” moments that really shows the product’s value.
In the end, we made it free during onboarding, but gated it behind a paid plan after a usage threshold. That way, users experience the value before we ask them to pay — and we’ve found conversion rates go up once they’ve seen it in action.
If a feature drives habit or trust early, give a taste. If it solves a deep pain consistently, charge. Finding that balance is part science, part gut.